British born Mark Withers is a life long cineaste. Fascinated by the medium since his first cinema visit in 1978 (Superman), Mark began writing scripts and planning out the best ways to make video films with friends, age 11.

Age 16 this ambition finally became reality with self-taught stop motion shorts and non-narrative studies of

local wildlife and structures, set to music.

Successfully completing a one year art and design foundation course in 1991, this proved Mark’s commitment to progress onto a further two year B/Tec audiovisual course at Batley film school, which he graduated top of his class.

During these three years of college Mark also participated in a voluntary film studies and theory class;

passed with a ‘distinction’ grade.

Initially struggling to find film, television & media work in Yorkshire besides direction, camera and editing duties on

a handful of music promos, commercials and shorts, Mark decided to relocate to Dorset in 1997

with the sole intention of putting his money where his mouth was and write, produce and direct his own

feature-length film.

Gathering a voluntary cast and crew of over sixty willing individuals; ‘darktaile’, one of the lowest budgeted motion pictures of all-time, would eventually run into censorship difficulties on completion three years later.

In 2002 Mark experimented with digital video; directing his second feature ‘Money Shot’.

Deemed a successful test of the DV medium, it went on to play at several worldwide film festivals

but with a budget of just £500 was not pushed any further.

The short comedy ‘Schnibber’ was written and directed by Mark in 2003, finding an international distribution deal instantly before he spent almost a year in Vancouver where ‘Strangers in the Light’,

another short directorial effort for Mark, was chosen to represent Canada as part of

a worldwide film project.

At this time Mark also co-developed a 12 part Television series tilted ‘Beverly Hills Realtors’.

Almost instantly green-lit by Twentieth Century Fox, it was later dropped after finding its way into development hell!

Back in the UK Mark made his Big Brush Films production company legitimate, producing commercials, documentaries, corporates, travelogues, shorts and Mark’s biggest feature film project, the HDV mockumentary

‘Hardcore: A Poke into the Adult Film Orifice’.

 Shot in 4 weeks around London, Dorset and Hastings with a cast of 35, it has to date played at many worldwide festivals, proving comedically successful in a variety of territories and languages.

Relocating near Manchester in 2006, Mark has once again needed to re-establish himself amongst the North-West

media industry, freelancing for projects by councils, National Grid and the NHS.

2007 sees his short film ‘My Mum the Wrestler’ do incredibly well at worldwide festivals and on-line plus the short film 'Meat Market' go into production whilst development of feature film number four ‘Baby Swipes’ begins.

Additionally the Onward Film Co. take him on as a commercials director for hire.

Mark Withers has ‘employed’ over 350 extremely talented and often professional cast and crew members through

Big Brush Films, many working for nothing more than expenses.

SELECTED DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY

A Bicycle

The Big Brush

Big Mo

darktaile (Feature)

Emily

The Green Killer

The Half Dead Poet’s Society

Hardcore: A Poke into the Adult Film Orifice (Feature)

Interview With A Vampire... Hunter

The Last Great Picture House

The Living Room

Manchester Utd 'Christmas Carol' Viral Commercial

Meat Market

Money Shot (Feature)

My Mum the Wrestler

Original Sin: The Story of Europe’s First Cannonball Run Superbike Rally (Co-Director)

One Man and His Balls

The Rock & Heifer

Running

Schnibber

Strangers in the Light

Table Dancer

FEATURE-LENGTH SCREENPLAYS (Produced and Un-produced)

Coffee in Manhattan

Corroded Silver Lining

Dark Black

Glue Storm

Hal Veins G.N.

Hardcore: A Poke into the Adult Film Orifice

A Hit-Man’s Heartache

L.A. Insane

Money Shot

Naked Canvas

Obese of Mind

Perfect Madman

Redemption Day

Reetardnorvanget

The Revisited

Sam-X

Sleeping Fish

Summer of Little Hope

Wrong Stop