Mark Hartley is an Australian film director,

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, a ...

, and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. He is best known for his documentary films, including '' Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!'' (2008), and his 2013 remake of the 1978 film '' Patrick''. He has also made many

music video A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to ...

s, for which he has been nominated several times for

ARIA Music Awards The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...

, winning one for " Who the Hell Are You" by

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in 2000.

Career

Mark Hartley got one of his first film credits, as

director, on David Parker's 1993 cult film '' Hercules Returns''. He is also a

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

and

. He has said that he "direct as an editor", as his background is also in editing. In 2008 he produced the documentary film '' Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!'', followed by another documentary, '' Machete Maidens Unleashed!'' (2010), about the Filipino film industry, which was written and directed by Hartley. In 2013, he made '' Patrick'', a remake of the 1978 supernatural " Ozploitation" classic of Australian cinema, also named '' Patrick''. The film was produced by Antony I. Ginnane. He also wrote and directed the documentary film '' Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films'', released in 2014. The film is about Israeli-born cousins

Yoram Globus Yoram Globus (; born 7 September 1943) is an Israeli–American film producer, cinema owner, and distributor. He has been involved in over 300 full-length motion pictures and he is most known for his association with The Cannon Group, Inc., an ...

and

Menahem Golan Menahem Golan (; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israelis, Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid ...

, who founded

Cannon Films The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994. The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that investe ...

and changed the way films were made and marketed in Hollywood. Hartley directed the thriller feature '' Girl at the Window'', starring Radha Mitchell and

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, released in 2022. The film was written by Terence Hammond and Nicolette Minster, and produced by Antony I. Ginnane.

Select filmography

* ''His Master's Voice'' (1992; short film) (comedy) As editor; directed by Yvonne Pecujac * ''Mercy'' (1993; short film) As editor; directed by Mark Bakaitis * ''A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock (2004) (documentary)MUBI
/ref> *'' Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!'' (2008) (documentary) *'' Machete Maidens Unleashed!'' (2010) (documentary) *'' Patrick'' (2013) *'' Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films'' (2014) (documentary) *'' Girl at the Window'' (2022)

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The

is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. They commenced in 1987. ! , - ,

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, Mark Hartley for " Good Mornin'" by

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

, Mark Hartley for " He Don't Love You" by

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References

External links

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