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    Mark Noonan

     

    Address: c/0 Independent Talent Group, 40 Whitfield St, London W1T 2RH (agent)

    Email: sarahwilliams@independenttalent.com (agent)

    Tel: +44 20 7636 6565 (agent)

    Agent: Sarah Williams

    Film Type: Live Action

    Bio

     

    Mark Noonan is a writer/director based in Dublin and Paris. His first short film Questions was the winner of Best Debut Short Film at the 2009 Cork International Film Festival and an Honourable Mention at the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh. A graduate of the Berlinale Talent Campus, his feature directorial debut You're Ugly Too featuring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) and Lauren Kinsella (Albert Nobbs) was nominated for Best Debut Feature at the Berlin International Film Festival on its premiere there in February 2015. It played in Competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2015 where it was nominated for both the Best International Feature and the Audience Award. In 2015 You're Ugly Too was awarded Best Debut Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh; it also won the 2015 Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland / Director's Guild of America Finders Series; and Best Screenplay Awards at both the Skip City International Festival in Tokyo and the Athens International Film Festival. It most recently won Best Feature Film at the 2016 Boston Irish Film Festival. In the 12 months since it premiered, the film has screened at over 50 film festivals around the world and has secured cinema distribution deals with Germany, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, Denmark, Romania, Ireland and the UK. International sales are being handled by Berlin-based agency Picturetree International. Mark is currently in development on his second feature film, a black comedy entitled Tyger, Tyger that was recently selected for the 2016 Berlinale Co-Production Market and is being supported by the Irish Film Board. He is represented by Independent Talent Group in the UK and the Gersh Agency in the US. 

     

    Filmography

     

    YOU'RE UGLY TOO

    2015 - Feature Film

     

    THEY SHOOT PEOPLE

    2015 - Short Film

     

    GETTING AIR

    2010 - Short Film

     

    QUESTIONS

    2008 - Short Film

    Awards

     

    YOU'RE UGLY TOO

     

    Winner

    Boston Irish Film Festival

    Best Breakthrough Feature

     

    Winner

    SDGI and DGA

    Finders Series Award

     

    Winner

    Athens International Film Festival

    Best Screenplay

     

    Winner

    Skip City International Film Festival

    Best Screenplay

     

    Winner

    Galway Film Fleadh

    Best Debut Irish Feature

     

    Nominated

    European Film Academy

    Young Audience Award

     

    Nominated

    Berlin International Film Festival

    Best Debut Feature

     

    Nominated

    Edinburgh International Film Festival

    Best International Feature

     

    Nominated

    Edinburgh International Film Festival

    Audience Award

     

    Nominated

    Galway Film Fleadh

    Bingham Ray New Talent Award

     

    QUESTIONS

     

    Winner

    Cork International Film Festival

    Best Debut Short Film

     

    Winner

    Galway Film Fleadh

    Honourable Mention

     

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