MARK MONTEFIORE

Mark Montefiore is a young producer/creator who recently graduated from the Canadian Film Centre’s Producer Lab, with several award winning short films to his credit including, “BACK IN ’93” & “CAREER DAY!” (Both Bravo!FACTs) and most recently his first feature film, “EATING BUCCANEERS” (In post-production) starring Peter Keleghan. He has also created a live-action sitcom “ELLA” and a prime-time drama “BYRON BAY” which are both in development with Decode Entertainment and a late night animated series in development with marblemedia called, “DITCH PIRATES”.

In addition to several other television productions, Mark is in development as a producer on several feature films including a hockey bio-pic to be directed by Bruce McDonald, a horror-comedy called “THE CHANNEL”, and a documentary with CTV called, “SAMMY” about a former classmate of Montefiore who is now serving a life-sentence in the USA for his role as a high level Al-Qaeda operative.

Mark has recently attended the Rome Cinema Festival (’07) to foster relationships with Italian producers for an upcoming co-production, “WATER & OIL”. He was also part of the CFTPA delegation to Australia & New Zealand for “BYRON BAY” and was recently nominated for the Ontario Premier’s Award for Most Successful Recent Graduate.

Mark's film BACK IN 93 played at the WILDsound Film Festival in July 2008

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