ABOUT

In 2006, Mark Titus founded August Island Pictures in Seattle and learned the craft of storytelling by writing and directing brand films for clients like: The Nature Conservancy, T-Mobile and the United Nations Development Programme. As a filmmaker, Mark Titus has directed and produced short films since 2003.  In 2014 Mr. Titus helmed The Breach – an award-winning feature documentary about wild salmon.

In 2020, Mark launched impact brand, Eva's Wild concurrent to the release of his second award-winning feature documentary, The Wild - which examines the fate of Bristol Bay, Alaska through the lens of addiction and recovery, asking if it’s possible to save the things we love. In early 2021, Mark launched his podcast, Save What You Love, interviewing exceptional people devoting their lives in ways big and small to the protection of things they love.  Later that year, Titus earned a producer role on TV show, NCIS - working with actor, Mark Harmon to bring a dramatic depiction of the struggle to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska to network television - garnering 23 million viewers. In October, 2021, Mark received the Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award for excellence in Film from the Alaska Conservation Foundation.

In early 2022, Mr. Titus began filming The Turn, which will be the third and final film in The Breach Trilogy.  The Turn is scheduled to premiere in 2024. Mark has spoken at educational institutions like Cornell, Yale and the University of Oregon and on the TEDx stage in 2018. Through his storytelling, Mark Titus carries the message that humanity has an inherent need for wilderness and to fulfill that need we have a calling to protect wild places and wild things. You can find all of Mark’s current work here.