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My ProfileMark TerryTorontoFilmmakerSupplementary InformationTitle/Occupation: Director Educator Executive Producer WriterGender: MaleRace: Caucasian/WhiteCitizenship: CanadianLanguages Spoken: English, FrenchBiography:
Mark has been making documentary films for more than 20 years. His first film, Clive Barker: The Art of Horror, was made with the National Film Board of Canada and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first pairing of Mark and his Director of Photography, Damir Chytil, CSC.
Mark first established Hollywood Canada Communications in 1983 as a publishing house for his national controlled circulation publication, Hollywood Canada Magazine. Five years later, he bought Toronto’s historic Bayview Playhouse theatre and began producing live theatre here and on Broadway and London’s West End.
Hollywood Canada’s attention then turned to feature film production as Mark worked in Hollywood for five years producing the films Project Genesis, Replikator, Silent Lies, George B. (the first Canadian-produced feature to participate in the official Competition of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival) and The Man in the Iron Mask.
When he returned to Canada, he began to focus on television production: documentary series and one-offs.
Mark’s documentary directorial debut was with the Royal Canadian Regiment as he served with soldiers in Kosovo to make his documentary We Stand On Guard. The film, starring Gordon Pinsent, chronicled the first 100 years of the Canadian military. Mark produced, wrote and directed the film that played each Remembrance Day on Global Television for five consecutive years.
While working for a publicly traded production company in Toronto called EnBlast Productions, Mark started developing documentary projects for Enblast president and former Paragon Entertainment studio head Richard Borchiver. Mark created and wrote the documentary specials Earth’s Natural Wonders and Mysteries of Sacred Sites selling them to Programming Director Dan Russell at the Discovery Channel (US).
Still working with EnBlast, Mark created the popular documentary series Shop With Me for Global Television. The series profiled eclectic businesses in Canada.
The success of these documentary projects, along with Mark’s other dramatic features he produced while in Hollywood, earned him an invitation from the Government of China to produce a series of documentary and dramatic films for the prestigious Museum of History in Hong Kong.
Mark lived in Hong Kong for a year producing eight films for the museum’s permanent exhibit.
Link: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History/index.php
Mark’s adventurous spirit has brought him to exotic locations across the globe, but none more impressive to him than the Arctic. After a vacation in Alaska in the mid-1990s, Mark fell in love with the majestic beauty of the landscape. Subsequent trips to the Arctic in Canada and in Alaska inspired Mark to get involved with northern research programs.
Today, Mark is one of only 166 Canadian members of the prestigious Explorers’ Club, a 104-year-old organization comprised of the world’s greatest explorers. Mark was invited to be a Member International based on his previous work as a documentary filmmaker.
As a member of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the Canadian Council for Geographic Education and the University of Alberta’s Northern Research Network Mark learned a lot about the environmental issues affecting these fragile eco-systems and, by extension, the world.
As a result, he decided to create a unique documentary profiling how these issues are impacting on Antarctica today -- The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning.LINKS:
Rogers TV Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmF59QN0gt4Website:
www.polarcapproductions.comTrailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVwQ1shTAAwFacebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/The-Antarctica-Challenge/61414159588?ref=tsTwitter:
http://twitter.com/AntarcticaFilmIMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1306953/
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