Mark Atkin is a British filmmaker and director at Crossover Labs. He has directed and produced films,[1][2] including co-producing The Big Melt and From the Sea to the Land Beyond, and organized film festival events.[3]
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Career
editFrom 1998 – 2008 Atkin was a commissioning editor for TV and online at Australia's Special Broadcasting Service, where he worked to bring Taxi to the Dark Side and Waltz with Bashir to screens.[4] At SBS, he was also responsible for securing broadcast rights to early seasons of South Park.[5] During this time, in 2006, he attended Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket as a buyer.[6] In November 2008 he left SBS and began work at MeetMarket as producer and executive producer for three documentaries.[4] One was Digging for Grandad's Gold, in which Atkin journeys to Poland in search of valuables that his Jewish grandfather buried on the family property in 1939 before fleeing from the German invasion.[7] While in Sheffield Atkin also collaborated with Doc/Fest's director Heather Croall and Frank Boyd of Unexpected Media to create the film production company Crossover.[4]
Atkins is a marketplace consultant for the Australian International Documentary Conference, organising the international co-production market. He is also head of the Documentary Campus Masterschool and presents courses there. He ran workshops at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2012 and 2013.[8][9] After co-producing From the Sea to the Land Beyond, Atkin spoke about the project at TEDxSheffield in 2012.
In 2013 Atkin co-developed Animal Planet's Walking the Nile for Channel 4 in his role as multiplatform commissioning editor.[10]
In 2015 Atkin was the acting director of the Sheffield Doc/Fest, and in 2015 and 2016 he curated the virtual reality section of the festival.[11][12][13]
References
edit- ^ "BBC4 reveals Storyville slate". Broadcast Now, 29 July 2015 | By Hannah Gannagé-Stewart
- ^ "Film Review: 'The Show of Shows'". Variety, Sept. 21, 2015 Jay Weissberg
- ^ "Danish Dox: Copenhagen Fest Makes its Mark in Nonfiction November". Documentary Magazine, By Cynthia Close
- ^ a b c Carol Nahra, Letter From London: Mark Atkin Crosses Over, realscreen.com, 15 December 2008, retrieved 21 January 2014
- ^ ""We just got it": The story behind South Park and SBS ", SBS Australia, Maddie Palmer. 9 February 2017
- ^ Brian Brooks, "Paul Weller: Into Tomorrow" Opens 13th Sheffield Docfest, indiewire.com, October 2006, retrieved 20 January 2014
- ^ "Grandma's House; True Stories: Digging for Grandad's Gold; Who Knows Best: Getting a Job ", The Guardian, Euan Ferguson. 15 August 2010
- ^ Laura Davies, ‘What’s Up, Doc’, ‘’Exposed magazine’’, 1 June 2013
- ^ "Sheffield is fertile soil for aspiring filmmakers". The Independent, 24 June 2015.
- ^ Kelly Anderson, Animal Planet comes on board “Walking the Nile", realscreen.com, 20 December 2013, retrieved 17 January 2014
- ^ "Doc/Fest: VR projects highlight migrant crisis". Screen Daily, 13 June 2016 | By Tom Grater
- ^ " Sheffield ’16: Inside the Alternate Realities Summit". RealScreen, By Manori Ravindran, June 13, 2016
- ^ "Sheffield Doc/Fest boss sets out vision". Screen Daily, 5 November 2015 | By Chris Curtis
External links
edit- Crossover official website
- Sheffield Doc/Fest official website
- Mark Atkin, Profile at tedxsheffield.com]