Mark Polonia

Mark Alan Polonia (born September 30, 1968 in Johnstown, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. Polonia grew up in a large family as the youngest child. He has a twin brother, John Polonia, who died in 2008 at the age of 39. Entertainment and Cinegraphic Productions, which is now known as Polonia Brothers Entertainment. Mark Polonia produces films after John's death, then together with his long-time friend Matt Satterly.Polonia was head of the Department of Media Services at Mansfield University for 22 years.In 1985 he directed the film Church of the Damned for the first time and also appeared in a supporting role in the same film.Since the 1990s, films in the genre of horror, animal horror or science fiction films are regularly published. In 1993 he directed the film Hellspawn under the pseudonym Alan Joseph Micheal. Mostly in the same year or the previous year, Blockbuster appeared, of which Polonia published similar films. In 1994 the film Saurians was released, a year after Jurassic Park. In both films dinosaurs play the central role. A similar pattern can be seen in the 2013 films Empire of the Apes and 2017 Revolt of the Empire of the Apes: during this period remakes of the The Planet of Monkey Films from the 1960s and 1970s appeared. As producer of the films David S. Sterling is active.In his feature films Polonia relies on stop motion film technology, which mainly in the first half of the 20th century. ==References====External links==