George Lucas, Martin Scorcese, Vincent Gallo, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Guest, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Micheal Winterbottom, Peter Jackson.
Awards
...there in the post!
Festivals
Sutton Film Festival
Marq English's Interests
General
Filmmaking, Acting, Ancient History, Paranormal Studies, Dowsing, Music, Cult TV, Movies, Marvel / DC Mags, Sci-Fi nonsense, Comedy, Travelling.
Music
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Levellers, The Wonder Stuff, The Mission, Julian Cope, Dead Can Dance, Bob Marley, Dave Mathews Band, Stone Roses, Japan, PWEI, Happy Mondays, The Pogues, T Rex, Bowie, Soundtracks of John Williams, John Barry, The Beatles, Fairport Convention, Viper Squadron, Steeleye Span, Folk.
Movies
Original Star Wars Trilogy, Taxi Driver, Bond flicks, Star Trek II-The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek-First Contact, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Highlander, Superman the Movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Clerks, Fantastic Voyage, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, LOTR Trilogy, What the Bleep do we know?, Quatermass and the Pit, The Wicker Man (the original of course!), Casino, Raging Bull, Dog Day Afternoon, Baraka, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Jackie Brown, The King of Comedy, MIB, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens, Blue Velvet, Batman, Heat, Borat, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Planet of the Apes (the original of course!), Rocky Horror, Buffalo 66, Shelf Life, Return to Ravenswood.
Television
Doctor Who (Classic and New), Fawlty Towers, Twin Peaks, The Office, The Avengers, Blakes 7, Star Trek (Classic and New), Blackadder, Edge of Darkness, Danger Man, The Prisoner, Gerry Anderson, Alan Partridge, X Files, Babylon 5, Robin of Sherwood, The Saint, Buffy, Extras, Brass Eye, Spaced, Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Highlander, Torchwood, Firefly, The Young Ones, The Day Today, Jamm, Father Ted, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Life on Mars, Battlestar Galactica (Classic and New), Timequake, Most Haunted, Documentaries.
Books
The Modern Antiquarian - Julian Cope, The Sun and the Serpent - Hamish Miller & Paul Broadhurst, Target Novelisations of Terrance Dicks (when I was a nipper).
Heroes
Not sure about the term heroes but influences are....The Doctor (of course), George Lucas and Stan Lee to name a few.
I'm a Filmmaker, Actor (hire me, I'm cheap!), Reiki Healer and Paranormal Investigator. I've directed an assortment of digital diversities that occupy the MEV Universe which includes various short films including DAWNRAZOR (2001), SHELF LIFE (2003), ON MY PATCH (2003), REVERSING THE POLARITY - MEMOIRS OF TIME AND SPACE (2004), SOLSTICE AT DAWN (2005), WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MARK FIELDING (2006), the documentaries FAIRYTALE ADVENTURE (2003), FANZ (2007) a film about followers of Doctor Who and this year completed my first feature film, the improvised comedy RETURN TO RAVENSWOOD.
For three summers in the mid to late nineties, I worked as a Drama Counsellor, Specialist and Dept Head at Camp Vacamas in New Jersey, USA.
I am the founder and co-organiser (along with David Wells) of the annual SUTTON FILM FESTIVAL, a showcase event in South London that promotes new and existing filmmakers work. I'm the co-founder of SPIRAL, a paranormal investigation team in the UK that produces video episodes to download or view online..
I have a keen interest in Cult TV, Movies, Music, Earth Mysteries, folklore and the paranormal and would like to raise a glass to George Lucas, a certain Timelord, Stan Lee, Hamish Miller and the Avebury Monument for being responsible for my present state of mind!
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination
isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going
to miss opportunities for your life to be as compelling and as creepy as it
can be.
~Bruce Greenwood
If you have walked in the heart of the Greenwood and have bathed in the light of its living force remember what you have felt; and whenever you pass a tree whether it stands alone in a wilderness of human making or in the depth of woodland, give a moment of your time to listen to its voice. For in many parts of the land the trees are dying only the hearts that know something of the true wisdom can save them. (Anon)
Time to welcome in the Summer, health and happiness.
Si usted ha paseado por el centro del bosque verde y se ha bañado en la luz de su fuerza viva recuerde lo que usted ha sentido; y siempre que usted pase al lado de un árbol si está parado solamente en un yermo de fabricación humana o en la profundidad del bosque, dé un momento de su tiempo para escuchar su voz. Porque en muchas partes de la tierra los árboles se están muriendo solamente los corazones que tengan algo de la sabiduría verdadera pueden salvarlos. (Anón)
No more lives torn apart, That war again will never start, and those that rage will end. Every man will have a friend, and right will always win, that love will spread like wildfire, and that it will never end. This is my grown-up Christmas List.
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other. - Emily Matthews
