MARK POOLE - DIRECTOR, DOCUMENTARIES

Major credits:

INDIA RISING  

(Director/Writer)

Documentary for Bombay production company Haimark Films International about the exploding India economy and its effects on the culture. (2008)

Screened on Ovation, March 21, 2007.

FEARLESS 

(Co-Producer/Director/Writer)

1 hour documentary about Julia Britton, at 92 the world's oldest emerging playwright. (2007)

Screened on ABC1, June 15, 2008.

AUTISM - THE TEEN YEARS

(Director/Co-Producer)

Half hour documentary about three teenagers who have autism. Produced by Lisa French. (2003)

Invited to Sprouts Film Festival, New York.

BIRTH OF A FILM FESTIVAL

(Director/Co-Producer)

A short documentary about the birth of the Melbourne International Film Festival at Olinda in 1952. (2002)

Screened at St Kilda Film Festival & acquired by ACMI.

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS

(Director/Producer)

A series of 12 half hours produced by the ABC on looking at the Australian business scene I worked with Mark Davis of Dateline fame. (1995)

Screened on ABC TV.

AUTISM - THE EARLY SIGNS

(Director/Editor)

Half hour documentary about three autistic five year olds - and their parents. Screened on ABC. (1989)

ATOM Award.

PLUS: I've written a number of broadcast one hour documentaries, mainly shown on the ABC, including Besieged, Australian Federation, Lasseter - Legend of the Lost Reef, & Hope Street.

And I've written a number of half hour docs, including Identifiably Australian Design, Just a Patch of Scrub, and The Bicentennial Project.