Mark Christopher (born July 8, 1963, in Fort Dodge, Iowa) is a screenwriter and director most known for directing 54 (1998).

[2] With over 30 minutes of re-shoots cut out of the 1998 version, and over 40 minutes re-instated, the film was universally lauded by critics and hailed as a "jubilant resurrection" and "a lost gay classic.

"[3][4] The story of the films destruction and resurrection was featured on New York magazine's Vulture.com website.

[5] and The Guardian[6] and Elvis Mitchell's interview with Mark Christopher on KCRW's The Treatment.

[7] Christopher also directed three short films, all of them theatrically distributed: The Dead Boys Club (1992), an influential short of the New Queer Cinema wave as cited by B. Ruby Rich in her Sight & Sound article that defined the genre; Alkali, Iowa (1995), winner of the Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival (1996); and Heartland, Strand Releasing (2007).