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Directing, writing, producing and animation — from BAFTA-nominated television and a Cineworld-released feature to studios making the next generation of children's media.
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Directing, writing, producing and animation — from BAFTA-nominated television and a Cineworld-released feature to studios making the next generation of children's media.
Directing
Marc directed the BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 series Vids, the CBBC short Winning Streak (Silver Mboni, Kenya International Film Festival), and his debut feature Dark Nature — a thriller that won Best Director and Best Cinematography at the "Deffies", earned a BAFTA Best Director (New Talent) nomination, took a Cineworld theatrical release and went worldwide via Troma in New York.
His short films have travelled to Palm Springs, London Film Festival, Seattle, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. On stage, his production of Love, Sex & Cider won an Edinburgh Fringe First and toured the UK from the Traverse to the Pleasance.
Director · Feature & TV
Writing
Marc's supernatural thriller Contorted Hazel was Winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum at Edinburgh International Film Festival, optioned by studios including Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, and continues to develop toward production with BAFTA-winning actors attached.
He was commissioned to adapt Nicholas Anderson's best-selling spy memoir NOC — Non Official Cover, and its sequel NOC Three Times, into The Judas Tree for feature and series. His feature script Manifest was a Screenplay Festival semi-finalist, and he continues to develop original and commissioned drama across feature, television and short formats.
Marc has also delivered script-writing courses and masterclasses for Scottish Screen, the University of Strathclyde, the Northern School of Art, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Strathclyde Theatre Group.
Writer · Feature & Series
Marc has developed and produced many educational suites, and has acted as external degree-course curriculum assessor for the Northern School of Art, Leeds University, Stirling University, Glasgow University, Teesside University and many others.
He has also developed, written, produced and directed a vast number of full educational series for BBC Education, BBC Learning and BBC Bitesize — far too many to list.
Marc is regularly contracted to edit feature and short films, and to develop others as a script consultant — shaping structure, character and story across a wide range of projects.
Some of this work is on major films that remain under NDA and cannot be listed publicly.
Producing
Marc produced the Edinburgh International Film Festival's official television (EIFF TV), directing the multi-camera live red-carpet premieres, and produced documentary and New Found Land work for Scottish Television, Scottish Screen and Grampian. Through Mandragora Productions he has produced and developed feature and short film across more than two decades.
Today he produces through Nova Mundi Studios in Teesside — unearthing fresh North East characters and worlds across factual entertainment, documentary, daytime TV, short and feature film, and podcasts.
Dark Nature · Feature
Mandragora Productions · Feature Film
Marc's debut feature Dark Nature won global distribution through Troma Films, New York, and took a Cineworld theatrical release. At one point its DVD outsold The Hunger Games domestically at HMV and Asda, before going on to stream on Amazon Prime and other platforms.
Cinema trailer · Cineworld
Clapper Fun · behind the scenes
Nova Mundi Studios · Feature Documentary
Marc is Executive Producer on Home, a Nova Mundi feature documentary — an official selection at the Tees Valley International Film Festival, RS FilmFest, and the Lift-Off First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2024.
Home · Documentary
Animation & interactive
A decade building animation for the biggest broadcasters — and now the AI-guided media that comes next.
As Executive Producer and co-owner, Marc steered Arcus to become the largest specialist 2D animation studio in the UK north of Manchester — delivering series for CBBC, BBC Education, BBC Bitesize and BBC Teach, and developing a slate including an adaptation of Nick Sharratt's best-selling Shark in the Park.
Consulting Executive Producer at KingBee, based at Elstree Studios — bringing broadcast animation experience and Virtual Production know-how to a new slate of children's and family content. Read the studio's blog, The Buzz.
Co-founder of Buzzeebee — an AI-guided animated children's interactive app developed with BBC Education and supported by Innovate UK, blending animation craft with adaptive, child-safe AI.
Co-run with John Farman, Vital Publishing extends Marc's storytelling into print and IP — developing books and properties alongside the screen and animation work.
Mentoring founders, advising on studio builds, and pioneering Virtual Production & AI for the regions.
