MarkAlbiston
- Director
Mark Albiston has won awards at festivals in Cannes, Berlin and Salt Lake City, thanks to short films Run and The Six Dollar Fifty Man (which he directed with Louis Sutherland). After time in the United Kingdom, Albiston returned home to launch Sticky Pictures, where he won gongs for arts shows The Living Room and The Gravy. Alibston and Sutherland's 2013 movie Shopping won further awards and acclaim.
Screenography
Biography
Mark Albiston has won a reputation both for innovative shows about the arts, and globe-trotting films about childhood.
Albiston grew up in Raumati Beach, where he "learnt to dream". In 2000 he set up company Sticky Pictures with his wife, lawyer Amy Bardsley. The hope was "to direct a wide variety of projects and not be pigeonholed". Sticky made extreme sports shows, arts-based documentaries, short films, music videos and commercials.
Awards
2013 Berlin Film Festival
Winner of Generation 14 Plus Section: Shopping
2013 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Film: Shopping
Best Director (shared with Louis Sutherland): for Shopping
Best Screenplay (shared with Louis Sutherland): for Shopping
“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. ”