Episode 9 - Science Fiction VS. Reality

Tonight our guest is Director Marc Furmie! Born in South Africa and raised in Sydney, Australia, Marc’s career began soon after graduating from the UNSW College of Fine Arts with a slew of shorts, ARIA nominated music videos and PSA’s under his belt. Marc’s Screen-Australia-and Screen NSW financed shorts Death’s Requiem and Dark Horse have screened at over 50 International Film Festivals scooping awards at St. Kilda, Method Fest, Eerie Horror Film Festival, Shriekfest, Flickerfest, the Byron Bay International and St. Kilda Film Festivals. Marc’s commercial directing career has included major campaigns for Amnesty International, Sony, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Telstra and he has directed major music videos for Warner, EMI, Universal and Sony. Marc has directed two episodes of the award-winning Event Zero series for Movie Extra and three episodes of the Screen Australia-funded sci-fi series Airlock for SyFy and Deadhouse Films. Terminus, Marc’s first feature film as writer-director, was released worldwide by Vertical Entertain- ment in 2016. He was also a co-writer on the 2018 actioner In Like Flynn and the Netflix Original Sweet River. Marc is also an executive producer on the film Switzerland, directed by Anton Corbijn (Control, The American) starring Helen Mirren and produced by Gabriel Tana (Philomena, Thirteen Lives), Andrew Mason (The Matrix), Troy Lum (The Water Diviner) and Jim Robison for Filmnation Entertainment. Marc’s screenplay Harlem 58 was a finalist in the 2020 Final Draft Big Break Competition. Marc has sold his first TV-series pitch, The Coves, to Chris Hemsworth’s Thematic Entertainment. His most recent short film A Perfect Circle picked up the Audience Award for Best Short at the 2020 Meth- od Fest Film Festival and screened at Filmquest, Hollyshorts and the Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival. Marc is managed by Allard Cantor and Jarrod Murray at Epicenter.   / rezistorfilms     / rezistor   #ManuIntiraymi #DTFAM #SciFi #StarTrek #Terminus #DangerousThoughts

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