Mark Albiston has twice been awarded special distinction awards at the Cannes Film Festival in France - for family drama Run and 2009's The Six Dollar Fifty Man, which Albiston co-directed with Louis Sutherland. After a stint working in the UK as a producer and director, Albiston returned to New Zealand and launched Sticky Pictures, where he has won awards for innovative programmes about the arts.
I think good directors don't direct, they channel. You pick the right people for the job you want to pull off and, as long as you communicate clearly what you ‘see’, then they can grow it.
– Mark Albiston