Mark Altman - Writer and Producer

Mark A. Altman is the co-writer and co-producer of Free Enterprise, with collaborator Robert Meyer Burnett. Free Enterprise is the wonderfully strange film about two hard-core SF fans whose lives are changed by a chance meeting with personal idol William Shatner, who plays himself in the film.

Shatner gives an unforgettable performance as he pokes fun at his own image and eccentricities. The film features Eric McCormack of TV's Will & Grace and is filled with enough SF and pop-culture references to play like a foreign film without subtitles to anyone who isn't a fan themselves. The two protagonists in the film are unapologetically autobiographical reflections of filmmakers Mark and Robert, which only adds to the fun.

Mark and Robert are also producer and associate producer of the superhero comedy The Specials, starring Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy and Thomas Haden Church. Mark is the former editor-in-chief of Sci-Fi Universe, a monthly magazine devoted to genre motion pictures and television. He also was a frequent commentator for TV's Sci-Fi Channel where he covered the issues of the day on the weekly series, SF Vortex.

Mark has also written numerous comic books for DC and Malibu Comics and is the author of several non-fiction books including Trek Navigator for Little Brown & Company. In addition, Mark has served as Executive Producer of the Universe Awards, an annual awards show devoted to honor excellence in the science fiction field.

The Los Angeles Times has called him "the world's foremost Trekspert" and USA Today noted that Mark is "the leading authority on Star Trek." Sci-Fi Channel has called him "The Socrates of Sci-Fi" and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld's Newman) proclaims "He's the king of science fiction!"