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Mark Ashton Lund (born June 6, 1965) is an American writer, publisher, and television analyst who covers figure skating. He is also a film producer.

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In 2001, Out Magazine named Lund to the OUT 100 list of greatest success stories for that year.^[2]

Lund has also made numerous media appearances as an analyst on figure skating, particularly during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, where he was an analyst for CNN.^[3][4] He served as a judge on the television show Skating with Celebrities in early 2006.^[5][6] After losing control of International Figure Skating, Lund, who is openly gay,^[5] founded another magazine, SCENE, aimed at the gay community.^[7]

Lund appeared on Nancy Kerrigan's World of Skating in an episode that aired January 14, 2007 titled "Countdown to Nationals & Road to Glory".^[8] His commentary in this episode concerning US men's figure skater Johnny Weir was criticized by several bloggers in the gay community.^[9] On March 18, 2008 writer Alan Schwarz used some of Lund's quotes from the broadcast in a New York Times article titled Figure Skating Rivalry Pits Athleticism Against Artistry.^[10]

In 2007, Lund appeared as Commander Steven Conner in Star Trek: Odyssey in their pilot episode "Iliad"^[11] and produced the science fiction short film First World based on his feature-length script.^[12] The script was nominated for screenplay awards at the California Independent Film Festival,^[13] Fantastic Planet Film Festival ^[14] and The Movie Deal.^[15]

On August 18, 2013, Lund premiered his first feature film Justice Is Mind at the Capital District Film Festival in Albany, NY.^[16] After a limited theatrical run^[17] and international premiere^[18] the film was released by Filmhub to Amazon Prime on September 26, 2014.^[19]

In 2014 Lund appeared on ESPN’s 30 for 30 episode The Price of Gold^[20] about the attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, MI.

In 2016 Lund wrote Serpentine, a political thriller around the sport of figure skating.^[21] To develop interest in the project Lund produced the first ten pages of the script.^[22]Serpentine: The Short Program premiered on March 6, 2017 at the Strand Theatre in Clinton, MA.^[23]

References

External links

• Official Mark Ashton Lund Web site


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  Mark Lund on IMDb


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  First World on IMDb