Mark Palansky was born in Toronto but grew up in Los Angeles. He studied art and philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Palansky works with sculpture, photography, and design, and added film to his creative talents at the end of the 1990s. In 1999 he made his first short film, Shutter, about a pregnant photographer whose life is saved by her own strange visions. He debuted as a feature-film director with the modern fairy tale about an ugly girl named Penelope, the important moral message of which he handles with humour, playfulness, and invention.
MFF Karlovy Vary
