Mark Atkin is a British filmmaker and director at Crossover Labs. He has directed and produced films, including co-producing '' The Big Melt'' and '' From the Sea to the Land Beyond'', and organized film festival events.

Career

From 1998 – 2008 Atkin was a commissioning editor for TV and online at Australia's

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, where he worked to bring ''

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'' and ''

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'' to screens.Carol Nahra
Letter From London: Mark Atkin Crosses Over
realscreen.com, 15 December 2008, retrieved 21 January 2014 At SBS, he was also responsible for securing broadcast rights to early seasons of

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. During this time, in 2006, he attended

Sheffield Doc/Fest Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest; abbr.Sheffield International Documentary Festival or SIDF) is an international documentary Film festival, festival and industry marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England. The festiv ...

's MeetMarket as a buyer. In November 2008 he left SBS and began work at MeetMarket as producer and executive producer for three documentaries. 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. While in Sheffield Atkin also collaborated with Doc/Fest's director

Heather Croall Heather Ann Croall (born 1967) is an international arts CEO, artistic director and documentary producer, best known for leading Sheffield Doc/Fest which she grew to be one of the best documentary festivals in the world and Adelaide Fringe where ...

and Frank Boyd of Unexpected Media to create the film production company

Crossover Crossover may refer to: Entertainment Music Albums * ''Cross Over'' (album), a 1987 album by Dan Peek, or the title song * ''Crossover'' (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles album), 1987 * ''Crossover'', an album by Intrigue * ''Crossover'', an album by ...

. Atkins is a marketplace consultant for the

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, organising the international co-production market. He is also head of the Documentary Campus Masterschool and presents courses there. He ran workshops at

in 2012 and 2013.Laura Davies, ‘What’s Up, Doc’, ‘’Exposed magazine’’, 1 June 2013 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 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ...

in his role as multiplatform commissioning editor. 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."Sheffield Doc/Fest boss sets out vision"
''Screen Daily'', 5 November 2015 , By Chris Curtis

References

External links

Crossover official website

Sheffield Doc/Fest official website

Mark Atkin
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