About Mark

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2024-11-05

Writers' Room Member

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Awards

  • From Mother, With Love - Nominee - Best Screenplay - Wolverhampton Film Festival
    (2025)

  • Crackpot - Honorable Mention - Best Screenplay - A Royal Chance Film Festival
    (2024)

  • Dead on the Vine - Best Film - Unrestricted View Film Festival
    (2023)

  • Dead on the Vine - Best Director - Unrestricted View Film Festival
    (2023)

  • Birth of a Demon - Best Screenplay - Night of Comedy Shorts
    (2023)

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Credits

  • Dead on the Vine

    Dead on the Vine (2020 - 2023)
    Film by Dan Films / Recoil Films (Comedy, Drama and Thriller) Writer/Director When two men are forced to pull into a vineyard after one has a seizure it throws their lives and those of the two female owner into chaos. 'Boundary-testing thriller that weaponises the horror of humanity under pressure' - Dead Northern 'A taut thriller' - Barry Ryan (Producer - Agatha Raisin) 'Strong Work' - Filmwax Radio

  • Guardians

    Guardians (2017)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Comedy and Thriller) Writer/Director A comedy thriller about two highly unqualified men trying to defend a 200 yr old house in East London from unseen forces.

  • Stained

    Stained (2015)
    Film (Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery and 1 More) Writer When Harris runs out of toilet paper, a nightmare is unleashed from which he may never escape.

  • Corinthian

    Corinthian (2014)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Action, Drama, Sports Drama and Drama) Writer/Director Two people fight for more than glory in the brutal world of bare knuckle boxing.

  • Somebody to Love

    Somebody to Love (2013)
    Film (Drama) Writer When Sebastian brings Cassandra home he thinks he has found perfection. The fact that she was dead was only the first clue that perfection is rarely, if ever, attained.

  • Heckle

    Heckle (2013)
    Film (Comedy and Drama) Writer Stacy Mitchell, a supermarket cashier living in Selby, hides her misery and upset with a happy persona. To the outsider her life is carefree, but her husband has left her. She wrestles with the pain by joking about it. Out for a works drinks night in a local pub, the pub comic Wilton Johnston heckled by her, invites her up to try it for herself. To the comic's amazement, she gets more laughs than him. Afterwards Wilton asks Stacy for a date but she turns him down. A few days later Wilton shows up at the supermarket and gets Stacy to agree to go with him to an open-mike club. She insists its not a date, she just wants to see if he uses the same material twice. At the club, Wilton gets Stacy to take the mike. This time its not so easy to get the audience to laugh. Afterwards she realises that there is more to being a stand-up than just getting up. Stacy starts to sketch out a stand-up routine that allows her to explore what she wants from life. By trial and error as a stand-up, the ... Written by Anonymous

  • The Ballad of the Lonely Highwayman

    The Ballad of the Lonely Highwayman (2012)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Adventure, Drama, Romance, Period Piece and 1 More) Producer Written and Directed by Jonathan Brown. A rich landowner is escorted to a lavish ball by a lady of the night. On the journey, she tells him The Ballad of the Lonely Highwayman. But all is not what it seems as myth and reality blur.

  • Beard

    Beard (2011)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Comedy and Drama) Writer A comedy about the nature of facial hair and its impact on our lives. Starring Matt Prendergast and David Whitney

  • Too Loud

    Too Loud (2011)
    Film (Drama, Comedy, Drama and Mystery) Writer Two men meet on a park bench. It's been three days. But what does it mean? Why was the plane too noisy? Where is the dog? And what's wrong with cats?

  • A Political Life

    A Political Life (2011)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Comedy and Drama) Producer A comedy about the absurdity of nothingness. Written by and starring Mike Shephard (BBC Radio 4, Talk Sport, Tin Can Podcast)

  • I Am Lonely

    I Am Lonely (2011)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror and 1 More) Producer Being the last man alive is hell - especially if you're as annoying as Chris. Following a zombie apocalypse and the death of his close friend, Chris has to learn to live with himself. WINNER - Best Film - Cannes SFC 2011

  • Stalker

    Stalker (2009)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Drama, Thriller and Drama) Writer Knowledge, enlightenment, pain. You never know what you might find in the shower. Starring David Whitney and Jenny Harrold (Winner - Best Actress - Van D'Ors 2011)

  • The Grocer

    The Grocer (2008)
    Film by Braine Hownd Films (Comedy and Drama) Writer Vic used to mingle with royalty, topple dictators and generally defeat evil. But one mistake and your biggest worries suddenly become the rising price of lettuce and running low on stocks of toilet roll. Directed by Phil Haine

  • Shooting Paul

    Shooting Paul
    Writer

Loglines

  • Celestial

    Celestial Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy Family In the battle to save her youth centre from corporate development teen activist Celeste discovers an amulet that imbues her with the power to see the truth of a person and the strength to act when she needs to. 

  • Mudlark

    Mudlark Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A horrifying figure from the past is given new life when a mudlarker finds a white ribbon and ring on the banks of the Thames.

  • The Grateful

    The Grateful Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Crime A man and his daughter have lived a peaceful decade in an isolated and magical Scottish community that exist symbiotically alongside the elemental beings, The Urisk, who keep the land in return for their gratitude. But when the man's past comes back to violently haunt him the danger comes not only from intruders seeking retribution but also the Urisk who switch from benevolent to malevolent when they see ingratitude.

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