| MARK FITZPATRICK
Mark’s talent as a writer was first recognized in 1973 at age thirteen when he won first prize in a playwriting competition in high school. However, his penchant for writing was put on hold as his professional football career took precedence.
Returning to the arts, Mark enrolled in the prestigious Sydney Acting School in 1984, graduating alongside such actors including Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger and Jackie Chan. He has performed in over forty plays in Australia and written and directed several theatrical productions. In1993 he took a script-writing course at the University of Technology Sydney, which unearthed his edgy, hard-hitting style.
In 1999 Mark did something no other person in Australia has done. He went behind the bars of a maximum-security prison, to write and direct a half hour short film titled, The Gas Man, with Australia’s most notorious juvenile prisoners cast in the roles.
That same year Mark was offered a Hollywood deal by Pacific Western, (ARMAGEDDON, TERMINATOR, ALIEN), to purchase rights for his feature script THE NOTHING MEN. He has gone on to write eighteen screenplays, three of which are true stories still in development. One of these, DESCENDANCE, a story of a struggling aboriginal dance group, who overcome addiction and go on to compete in the World Cultural Dance Championships.
THE NOTHING MEN is Mark’s directorial feature debut.
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