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JimMarbrook

  • Director
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The films of Jim Marbrook include feature-length documentaries on speed chess maestros (2003 award-winner Dark Horse), psychiatric hospitals (Mental Notes) and environmental issues in New Caledonia (Cap Bocage). Marbrook also lectures in screen and television at Auckland University of Technology.

Screenography

LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears
2020 Writer, Second Unit - Cinematographer, Producer Film
The Dark Horse
2014 Co-Producer Film
Cap Bocage
2014 Camera, Editor, Producer, Director Film
Mental Notes
2012 Producer, Director, Editor, Camera Film
Ko Whanganui Te Awa
2007 Director Film

Biography

Director Jim Marbrook is best known for his documentary work, which has screened on television and at the NZ round of film festivals. Auckland born and bred, Marbrook began making and studying films in the 90s, while at Concordia University in Montreal. His first short film after returning home, dark drama Jumbo, debuted at the NZ round of film festivals in 1998. It also played in a number of international festivals.

Awards

2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Documentary: Loimata - The Sweetest Tears

2015 Rotterdam International Film Festival (Holland)
Audience Award: The Dark Horse

“(Dark Horse) showed his sensitive but entirely unsentimental touch with this material and he does a great job here, letting his characters tell the stories and refreshing the talking-head format with visits to the abandoned and sometimes skeletal ruins of the places they once lived.”

— Peter Calder, in an NZ Herald review of Mental Notes, 23 June 2012