Mark Gill (film director)

Mark Gill (* 20th century in Stretford , Manchester ) is a British film director .

Life

Mark Gill studied film production at the University of Central Lancashire and graduated in 2004. His graduation film received a Royal Television Society Award for best student work. He then made the short film The Voorman Problem . He wrote the script with Baldwin Li . For the film, he received nominations for the BAFTA Award and for the Oscar in the Best Short Film category . He also won the Colchester Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival . He then shot the short film Full Time , which won the “Grand Short” award at the Shanghai International Film Festival and was nominated for the jury award of the Leuven International Short Film Festival . On this film he worked again with producer Baldwin Li.

He is currently (2017) working on England Is Mine , a biopic about singer Morrissey . The biopic will focus on the pre- Smiths era and will celebrate its world premiere in July 2017 as the closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival .