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Mark is an Irish writer/director based in London. His debut feature You’re Ugly Too (2015) starring Aidan Gillen and Lauren Kinsella, premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival where it was nominated for a Crystal Bear and the Best Debut Feature award. It played in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2015 where it was nominated for both Best International Feature and the Audience Award, and earned a nomination from the European Film Academy for the Young Audience Award in 2015. You’re Ugly Too was awarded Best Debut Feature at the 2015 Galway Film Festival and was the winner of the 2015 Director’s Guild of America/SDGI Finders Series, as well as Best Screenplay Awards at both the 2015 Skip City International Festival in Tokyo and the 2015 Athens International Film Festival. His original screenplay Tyger, Tyger is in development with the Irish Film Board and was presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in 2016. Mark’s feature documentary Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect was released in Irish cinemas in 2017 and has since secured several international distribution deals worldwide including sales to Kino Lorber in the United States and Salzgeber in Germany. Mark is a member of the European Film Academy and the Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland.
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Production (role): KEVIN ROCHE: THE QUIET ARCHITECTCompany:Project details: Feature-length documentary
“Fascinating and visually arresting” - SCANNAIN
"Elegant.. The Quiet Architect teases out Roche’s various contradictions to fascinating effect" - THE
IRISH TIMES
"Smooth, gliding visuals" - TOTALLY DUBLIN
"A fascinating portrait" - RTE
"A captivating visual feast.. 82 glorious minutes" - MAGPIE -
Production (role): TYGER, TYGER (Writer / Director)Company: Savage ProductionsProject details: Original Screenplay
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Production (role): YOU'RE UGLY TOO (Writer / Director)Company: Savage Productions / IFBProject details: “... infused with an evocative sense of place, the film showcases lovely, unforced performances from Aidan
Gillen and Lauren Kinsella as an uncle and his orphaned niece who start out as strangers but form a
connection probably destined to endure... A well-observed debut…[and] a film made all the more bittersweet
by its delicate touch.” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“...we become invested in these characters enough to actually care what happens to them – yet this charming,
oddly uplifting film earns our respect by never taking the easy, 'Hollywood' option with their relationships. In
short, You're Ugly Too's stylish, understated beauty is well worth beholding.” - THE IRISH NEWS
**** Four Stars “Emotions are underplayed and dialogue sharp…low-key but impressively executed” - TOTAL FILM
You're Ugly Too is a miniature Irish gem starring Game of Thrones’ Aidan Gillen as an ex-con who is thrust
together with his recently orphaned niece, Stacey (Lauren Kinsella). It's spiky, frequently surprising and driven by two great performances.” - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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Production (role): KID CHOCOLATE (Writer)Project details: 6 x 30 minutes
Black comedy-drama series about an aging boxer, a decade past his prime, who is forced to turn to petty crime and a humiliating job as a henchman to get by -
Production (role): ROUGHNECK (Writer)Project details: 6 x 60 minutes
Wendy Carter, a safety officer on an oil rig in the North Atlantic, returns to the UK to find the people she considers responsible for her son's death and inadvertently stumbles onto a possible Norwegian oil conspiracy in the English midlands -
Production (role): FAIR CITY (Director)Project details: 25 x 25 minutes
The day-to-day dramas of the community who live and work in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown
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Production (role): THEY SHOOT PEOPLE (Writer / Director)Project details:
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Production (role): GETTING AIRProject details: Official Selection: FRSF Polish Film Review, Warsaw 2011
Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2011, Japan
Indie Spirit Film Festival 2011, USA
Chicago-Irish Film Festival 2011
Lewiston-Auburn Film Festival 2011, USA
Belfast Film Festival 2011
Galway Film Fleadh 2010
Cork International Film Festival 2010
Kerry Film Festival 2010 -
Production (role): QUESTIONSProject details: Official Selection: Belfast Film Festival 2010
Novara Film Festival, Italy 2010
Chicago-Irish Film Festival 2010
MAREMETRAGGIO Trieste Film Festival Italy 2010
Morocco Film Festival 2010
Nickel Independent Film Festival Canada 2009
Rutger Hauer’s I’VE SEEN FILMS Festival 2009
Jordan Irish Film Fest 2010
Selected for Short Film Director Support Project as part of Short
Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2009
Galway Film Fleadh 2009
Cork International Film Festival 2009
Kerry Film Festival 2008