Screen Magazine Profiles Effects Editor Marko Markewycz

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Sceen Magazine January 30, 2005

MARKO MARKEWYCZ
Effects Editor, Optimus (Chicago, IL)
Birth Date: 05.06.63
Grew up in: Chicago.
Years in the business: 18


Presently working on:
A painting of snakes, fish and spiders.

What my parents wanted me to do for a living:
Anything in a creative field.

I realized I wanted to be in this business when:
I was a kid and I liked the TV commercials more than the TV shows.

If I were not an effects editor, I would be:
A beekeeper.

If I were a superhero, my nemesis would be:
Marshmallow Man.

My big break was:
Getting my start at Editel.

Who I admire most in the business:
My co-workers.

The person I'd most like to have lunch with (living or dead):
Marcel Proust, Jackson Pollock, Herman Melville, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Miguel de Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson and I would pick up the bill.

What people around the office say about me:
Hide your food, here comes Marko.

The worst job I worked on:
There is something good in every job. I try not to remember the worst in anything.

The best thing about working between the coasts:
The mountains, the ocean and the White Sox.

One thing I would change about this business:
Slow it down.

My favorite website is:
Optimus.com.

If I'm stuck on a desert island, I won't be able to live without:
Tunia, books, records and paint.

What I'd like to be doing in 10 years:
Living on a desert island.