Mars Roberge is a Canadian-American dual citizen filmmaker, born in Scarborough, Ontario (borough of Toronto), living in Los Angeles. A 1995 film production graduate of York University, Mars Roberge is a multi-award-winning director, producer, screenwriter and editor.

During the 90s, Mars worked as an editor for Canada’s most prolific music video company, Black Walk Productions. Shortly after, he was First Assistant Director on Jessy Terrero’s (50 Cent, Soul Plane, Daddy Yankee, etc.) early projects. Mars Roberge, as a filmmaker, has been covered in over 200 publications since 2010 and is recently mentioned in best-selling novel, Night Class: A Downtown Memoir by NYU Sociology professor, Victor P. Corona.

Roberge is responsible for launching a new film genre in 2016 which he calls Rocktopia and defines it as “an individual’s struggle against the ideals of a Utopian society, where the only freedom of escape is to rock out.” British tabloids have called Mars the leader of the Hellawood Movement: Hollywood directors making films from the streets, for the streets by any means necessary without any aspiration of being part of the Hollywood star system.

When not making films, he moonlights as a successful underground disc jockey named Die J! Mars, playing every major venue in Toronto, NYC and Los Angeles since the early nineties. He has had exhibits of his work at ARS Gallery in Japan presented by Nakamura Keith Haring Gallery, Chashama Gallery (Harlem) and Sur Le Mur (Los Angeles).

His first feature film, a documentary on Emmy Award-winning Sex & the City Stylist, Patricia Field and her gang of NYC queens, quickly became a staple in the LGBT festival circuit after premiering at Frameline in 2013, winning several awards including the Audience Choice Award for Best Film at 2015 NewFilmmakers Los Angeles.

His latest film, Scumbag had its world premiere at the 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam, playing beside Academy Award-winning Best Picture, Moonlight. It won three Awards, nominated for five and is still touring strongly playing somewhere every week for the rest of 2018.