Monday, 19 March 2012
6.30pm — 8.30pm
The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills
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Guest Speaker: Marcus Gillezeau
Marcus Gillezeau
Marcus is an International Emmy® Award–winning filmmaker. He has delivered international primetime television for ABC, SBS, National Geographic, Discovery, ZDF and many others.
Marcus began his film career 20 years ago as a drama editor but was soon drawn to producing. The past five years have seen a focus on writing and directing all-media drama and documentaries.
He completed “Scorched”, an all-media drama for the Nine Network and nineMSN for which he received an International Digital Emmy® Award. The project was also nominated for an AIMIA award and AFI Award.
Marcus’s credits span several genres and include the four-part ob-doc series “In the Line of Fire” (Channel 9), My Home, Your War (SBS), The Artist, the QC and the Refugee (ABC) and Storm Surfers (Discovery, 3Net, Sky3D).
He was the Executive Producer on the multi award-winning documentary Painting with Light in a Dark World (SBS) and directed Little Dove, Big Voyage (Network 7), Australia’s first fully convergent, multi-platform documentary project.
In 1998 he produced and co-wrote the adventure series “Afrika: Capetown to Cairo” (ABC, Channel 4 UK, National Geographic) that has subsequently sold in 32 countries.
Marcus has a history of mentoring emerging filmmakers including AFI Award–winning director Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Emmy Award–winner Michael Davie.
He is a specialist in digital production technologies, writing the highly successful book Hands On: A Practical Guide to Production and Technologies in Film, TV and New Media, which is used in universities and colleges across Australia. Marcus was President of NSW screen resource and training centre Metro Screen for three years and is on the board of Television Sydney.