POWER UP presents INTENT
Torri Higginson Joan Elizabeth Scheckel and Holland Taylor
Casting Director  Kris Nicolau Costume Designer Hank Ford
Production Designer Michelle Goode Composer Dino Herrmann
Editor Christopher G. Plummer Annette Davey
Director of Photography Denis Lenoir, A.S.C., A.F.C.
Executive Producers Stacy Codikow Amy Shomer
Produced by Alexis Fish Mary Ann Marino Written by Ryan Langdon
Directed by Mary Ann Marino


In this concise murder hunt, a well-connected policewoman embarks on a personal crusade when the voyeuristic
serial killer of lesbian couples, Eugene Burrows,
enters her realm of influence. She needs evidence,
and gets much closer to D.A. Alex Hansen to get it. 

Director Mary Ann Marino coordinated documentaries at WNET While still at NYU’s Tisch Film School.  In 1990, she entered the feature film industry on “My Own Private Idaho”.  She then joined her energies with Indie producer, Laurie Parker who mentored her while developing projects for Jane Campion, Euzhan Palcy, Alison MacLean, and Gus Van Sant.  Meanwhile she sharpened her production skills on Van Sant’s “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, George Romero’s “The Dark Half”, and Clare Peploe’s “Rough Magic”.In 1995 Mary Ann leapt from the indie world to the studio realm at Warner Bros.’ Tim Burton Productions where she was the Senior V.P. of Production and Associate Producer of Burton’s “Mars Attacks”. 

Inspired by working with unique artists, she left feature production in 1996 in order to focus on directing.  “If a story can reveal feeling which is fundamental to all people, then there is relief for the audience and they are freed, for a moment, from feeling that they are alone in the world.” 

She directed “Platform Six”, based on Italo Calvino’s novel “If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler” which features Barbara Bain (“Mission Impossible”), and Michael Shamus Wiles (“Lost Highway”).  

Simultaneously, she has produced commercials and videos with such renowned directors as Ang Lee, Mark Romanek, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu.  Ms. Marino has populated her productions with top artists including Colleen Atwood, Russell Carpenter, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Vilmos Zsigmond. 

Mary Ann teamed up with Joan Scheckel to develop ‘Miracle Elixir’, the story of Victoria Woodhull’s groundbreaking presidential campaign in 1860s New York.

She’s currently developing two films: “Extraordinary Things” an exploration of a pair of adolescent runaways and their stoned hippie parents, and “Pacific Beauties” the story of the haphazard marriage of a Filipino ‘mail-order bride’ and her American, phone-sex industry mogul husband.