As an idea man and auteur filmmaker (writer, producer, director, and cinematographer) known for the award-winning psycho-thriller motion picture To Comfort A Butterfly (2019), from 2019-2024 Marcus Payne had to fight through and transcend a proven false-accuser, her (10) ten criminal defense attorneys, and (8) eight adversarial, reprobate, and kangaroo-court styled judges sympathetic to the criminal (but biased against Payne for having the spine to stand firm for his U.S. Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and against censorship and corruption)... to return to his passion for producing impactful motion picture content.

With resilience, independent courage, clean hands... and fearlessly, Payne diligently represented himself in court alone without an attorney against the false-accuser (who, along with her first criminal defense attorney, tried and failed miserably to frame Payne with false-accusations of domestic violence). When police officers arrived, the false-accuser pretended to be a victim... even after police officers watched Payne's cell phone video showing him being violently attacked by the false-accuser. Moments later, in 24 frames per second, he was able to record his violent false-accuser being taken to jail instead of him. Three days later, he filed for divorce from the attacker and false-accuser.

Not one to stagnate, and with the resiliency to meet challenges creatively and head-on, Marcus Payne took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by strengthening his cinematography craft, immersed himself with understanding the importance of video content for modern business, and aligned his proven skill-sets with the content needs of business owners and fellow creatives.

Currently, Marcus Payne is the managing producer and cinematographer at cinematoseFILM, a motion picture development and production company where, when he's not producing brand videos for creators and businesses, Payne is traveling to scout locations internationally for motion picture projects, wherein he's either one of the intellectual property-owning writer/producers... or the cinematographer.

An avid traveler, jazz enthusiast, and thinking cinephile, Marcus Payne lives and creates in Dallas, Texas USA... but his touch is felt where there's a compelling story to be told, wherever his passport takes him, and towards the curated sights of his viewfinder.

cinematoseFILM is in pre-production of Evil In The Next Car Over, the next great psycho-thriller motion picture based on the original screenplay written by Marcus Payne. #auteurlife

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