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Director -- Mark Steven Grove
With extensive experience both in front of the camera and behind the
scenes, Mark Steven Grove brings an incredible sense of excitement
and intensity to
Dragon and the Hawk.
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Besides directing Dragon and the Hawk,
Mark Steven Grove has served as actor, stunt and fight choreographer, special FX supervisor,
firearms handler, and action coordinator on films such as Mad Love
(Drew Barrymore, Chris O'Donnell), My Samurai (Julian Lee, Bubba Smith, Mako),
Tiger Street (Julian Lee, Christophe Clark), Lonely Road,
Fatal Revenge, Warrior River, 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega
Mountain (Hulk Hogan, Loni Anderson, Jim Varney, Victor Wong), The Hunted
(Christopher Lambert), and Highlander -- The Series (Adrian Paul). He has also
coordinated television shows for March of Dimes and the Discovery Channel.
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In 1989 Grove entered the film industry, initially specializing in stunts and special effects:
"I was teaching martial arts at the time and was looking for another outlet
for my skills," Grove said.
"One night I was looking through the paper and
I saw a stunt workshop advertisement. Lars Lundgren, a veteran stunt
performer who was in Denver at the time, was running it. It was a six week
course. After the second week, Lars took me aside and said that he no longer
wanted me as a student. I was shocked for a moment. Then he smiled and
said, 'Instead, I would like you as a partner.'"
Grove is proficient at designing, choreographing, and staging a
wide variety of action sequences involving high falls, wire stunts,
fights, firearms, precision driving, breakaways, custom-designed
weaponry, prosthetic make-up, pyrotechnics, and atmospheric effects.
He has channeled these skills into his own stunt and special effects company:
Asgard Entertainment.
Grove's martial arts dojo,
Warrior Quest International,
provides training for stuntwork and theatrical combat in addition to
instruction in the Ninja, Samurai, and Kunoichi arts.
Skilled as an actor, a physically gifted acrobat and martial artist,
and with more than ten years experience in training other martial
artists and stunt performers, Mark Steven Grove has a particularly
keen appreciation for what it takes to make fights, stunts, and
special effects look real and exciting for the camera as well as
how to train and motivate performers to put the most into their
roles.
Grove balanced his love for action with an atmosphere
of mystery and a dash of humor to make Dragon and the Hawk
the adventure that it is.
