· Mark is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker who studied Speech & Drama at Middlesex Polytechnic and Independent Film Production and Avant-garde Film Studies at the University of Wales College, Cardiff.
Awards:
Roland Rees Memorial Award; Best Film, Best Director-FilmFest Kosova; Best Editing- Peloponnesian International Film Festival; Royal Literary Society Award; Achievement in Production - Screen Nation Film & Television Awards; CETS Champion for Culture Award
· Filmography:
HOW DO YOU SLEEP at NIGHT?
70', Prussia Lane Productions
Urban Internecine Intercession, Muse Gallery & Studio, London.
I, FATHER (UN 'ATI)
96', FilmaKS/Prussia Lane Productions
Crystal Award - Europe Asia Festival Cinema, Best European Film - Cinemaking International Film Festival, Best Screenplay, Best Director - World Cinema, Milan, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor Film in a Foreign Language - London International Filmmakers Festival, Best Experimental Film - World Film Fair, LA, Best Psychological Drama - Eurocinema Festival, Geneva.
SHADOW GENE
95', Prussia Lane Productions
Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress-FilmFest Kosova; Best Editing, Best Actress-Peloponnesian International Film Festival; Special Mention Dada Phalke Saheb International Film Festival
HAM & THE PIPER
80', Prussia Lane/Black Bull Productions
Best Actor-EKO International Film Festival; Best Film-Seven Art, Peloponnesian
International Film Festival; Silver Chris Award-Columbus International Film & Television Festival; Best Film/Video-Black International Cinema Festival; Best Feature Film-Carmarthen Bay Film Festival; Best Actor-Peloponnesian International Film Festival
CROSSING BRIDGES
96', Prussia Lane Productions Ltd
(Echelon Studios Entertainments/Ytinifny Pictures)
Winner Audience Award - Corinthian International Film Festival, Winner Independent Spirit Award-Technical Achievement - Screen Nation Film & Television Awards, Winner Cyprus International Film Festival - Best Editing, Official Selection London UK Film Focus, European Independent Film Festival; Special Mention Black International Cinema Festival, Germany; Ugu International Film Festival, South Africa
LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH
85', Prussia Lane Productions Ltd
BFM International Film Festival, Soho Curzon, London
· Short film:
LOUIS MAHONEY: PORTRAIT OF A RENAISSANCE MAN
22', Prussia Lane Productions/Screen Nation Foundation
Best Human Rights Film, Atlantic Bridge International Film Festival,
Official Selection- Rapid Lion International Film Festival, Johannesburg
SESQUICENTENARY
21', Prussia Lane Productions
Official Selection, Religion Today International Film Festival, Trento, Italy
SEINE TOXIQUE
5', Prussia Lane Productions
Official Selection - Bogota International Film Festival, Columbia
THE ROOM
5', Prussia Lane Productions
TIME
30', Prussia Lane Productions
SECRET LISTENERS
Pascal Theatre Co/Heritage Lottery Fund
Director and film trainer for installation art project.
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS
Pascal Theatre Co/Heritage Lottery Fund
Director - 50 x 2 hour interviews, film archive project.
ANONYMITY
21', Prussia Lane Productions
[Distributed Reframe-Tribeca/Nomad Films]
Official Selection Nomad Project-Access & Paradox Art Fair, Paris; Finalist World Peace Film Festival, Italy
VENGEANCE BY PROXY
15', Prussia Lane Productions
DIARY OF SOMEBODY
8', Visible Darkness/Prussia Lane Productions
LFVDA & Wandsworth Arts Short Production Award, BFM International Film Festival, Le Mans International Film festival; Grenzland International Film Festival; Greenwich Film Festival; Chichester Film Festival; Portobello Film Festival; Bite The Mango Film Festival-NMPFT, Bradford; Foyle Film Festival, N.I; Manchester International Film Festival; Brest International Short Film Festival
VEGETARIA
10', UWCC
Direction Film Festival, Belfast; Raindance Film Festival; Black International Cinema Festival; Truly Madly Cheaply Film Showcase, London
RAGE
6', UWCC/Prussia Lane Film
LAND Art Film Showcase, Brazil/Spain/London
· Theatre:
DESCLARIFIÇACAO
Musgo Producao, Forno Espace, Sintra, Portugal, Dir: Paulo Dos Reis Campos, 2024
NAKED SOLDIERS
(writer/director) - TICAVE , Cabo Verde 2022-2023
Mindelact Internacional Theater Festival, SalenCena Theatre Festival
DINNER FOR BONO, THE MISCLARIFICATION, WHAT A FE YU
Muse Theatre /Actors' Centre, Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
DARE TO DO: (The Bear Maxim)
Space Theatre, Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
*Published Aurora Metro Publishing Ltd
PRINCI I
(writer/director) - Color Art/Dodona Theatre, Kosovo
HAMLET (Adapted)
UK National Tour, Black Theatre Live, Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
*Published Aurora Metro Publishing Ltd
HAM & THE PIPER
Sofouli Theater, Corinth, Greece
BLAIR'S CHILDREN
(Co-author) - Cockpit Theatre, Dir: Charlie Westenra
WHERE THE FLOWERS GROW
Warehouse Theatre, Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
*Published Oberon Books Ltd
NAKED SOLDIERS
Warehouse Theatre, Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
*Published Oberon Books Ltd
A WALK IN THE PARK
(short) Talawa Theatre Co. Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
DEAR MAMA
(short, writer/director) Pascal Theatre Co/Swiss Cottage Library
DINNER WITH BONO
(short) Flight 5065/London Eye, Dir: Stephen Keyworth
FESS UP
Menagerie Theatre, New Wolsey, Ipswich, Dir: Patrick Morris
WRONG PLACE
Soho Theatre, Dir: Abigail Morris
*Published Oberon Books Ltd
KNOCK DOWN GINGER
Warehouse Theatre, Dir: Jeffery Kissoon
Winner Guardian Culture Award, Winner International Playwriting Festival, 2000; Premio Candoni Arte-Terme, Italy
*Published Oberon Books Ltd
· Radio drama:
BROKEN CHAIN
BBC Radio 4/Film London/Arts Council
MEDIUM RISK
BBC Radio 3, Dir: Liz Webb
**** Mark Norfolk's play lives up to the best of the Wire" slot, both disturbing and moving... Financial Times
IN THE CAR PARK
BBC Sparks