DIRECTOR
Bobby Mardis spent years developing himself as a premiere director by the sum total of all of his experiences. Bobby has a keen eye for composition and uses his experience as an actor to communicate with actors to pull together the best performances from each player. His experience in the editing bays also adds to his intuition in capturing the right shots needed to not only be visually appealing, but to tell a compelling story. His first directorial piece was “Why Colors” for Showtime and then, “Circle of Pain” also for show time. He went on to direct “One Last Time,” and his directorial career was started.
Bobby has directed features, shorts, commercials, infomercials, music videos, EPKs and anything that can be compiled into a visual piece that relays a message in story form. Bobby became a Directors Guild member by directing the M.O.W. “Midnight Blue” for B.E.T.
Bobby’s experience with writing scripts, books, lyrics and poetry every day, helps him to construct a story on paper and ultimately relay that visual story on screen. His tenacity, perspective and relenting commitment to each project makes him worthy of steering any ship by visually capturing the moments that will mold into a brilliant work of art. Bobby is not only shooting his original projects, but is open to directing other assignments from creatives with their own vision and who need a director who is committed to the vision.
Bobby expanded his directing skills by directing multi-camera shoots capturing variety shows, musical concerts and even parades. He is skilled at communicating with up to eleven cameras all focused on one objective, which is capturing the program in the most creative way possible. Bobby molds talent into a fully orchestrated series of actions that when blended together into one program, becomes a genius piece of art. Bobby has been known to pull the best performances from actors, singers, dancers, comedians and musicians. His entire mission is to capture creative genius on camera so the viewing audiences will have the privilege of viewing those images from the comfort of their own home or in public theaters.
Bobby is always on the mark and constantly delivers the moments, scenes and full product that is guaranteed to be talked about for years to come.
Bobby had the opportunity to direct a number of quality actors on this project including Joseph Phillips, Mailon Stewart, Angelle Brooks, Meta Golden and Ellen Cleghorn. Comedian Renaldo Rey and the Robert Townsend Partners in Crime were some of the highpoints of the film.
Midnight Blue was a feature movie made for television in the Arabesque Series. It was the highest rated show of the twelve M.O.W. features which aired on BET.