Mark_Gill_(film_maker)

Mark Gill

Mark Gill

English screenwriter and film director

Mark Gill is an English screenwriter and film director. He is from Stretford in Manchester.

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Gill graduated from University of Central Lancashire in 2007,[1] and soon after met producer Baldwin Li. Gill has won numerous awards, including a Royal Television Society Award. In 2014 Gill and fellow producer Baldwin Li were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for their film The Voorman Problem,[2] as well as receiving a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film nomination in 2013 [3]

Gill co-wrote and directed England Is Mine, a biopic based on the early life of Morrissey. It premiered at the closing gala of the Edinburgh Film Festival on 2 July 2017, and went into wide release in the UK in August 2017.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Lyndsey Boardman. "UCLan graduate nominated for an Oscar". University of Central Lancashire. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Oscar Nominees". Archived from the original on 10 January 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Morrissey biopic being developed by makers of The Voorman Problem". Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  4. [4]
    Mumford, Gwilym; Pulver, Andrew; Bradshaw, Peter (15 June 2017). "Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years". The Guardian.


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