MarkEverton
- Director
- Producer
Mark Everton's broadcasting career began in 1977 at Radio Hauraki. He joined the TVNZ newsroom in 1985 and from there moved to TV3, before going independent. Since then Everton has played key roles on numerous high-rating TV productions — including award-winning Rose-Noëlle documentary Back from the Dead, and James Cook chronicle Captain's Log. He explored the history of Kiwi rock music in Give It A Whirl.
Screenography
Biography
Growing up in West Auckland, Mark Everton was a lover of books, rock music and, perhaps most surprisingly, current affairs — he shocked his mother when at age five, he asked about Georgios Papadopoulos, the military dictator of Greece. After watching The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau on TV, he wanted to become a marine biologist. But in retrospect, maybe it was the show's storytelling, not the science, that he plugged into. As Everton told NZ On Screen, "storyteller" is the best description for his professional life.
Awards
2006 Qantas Television Awards (New Zealand)
Best NZ Entertainment: Dave Dobbyn - One Night in Matatā
2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Best Documentary Series: Captain's Log
“We were in receivership for most of that time – TV3 – and I used to say to the troops... What do you want to do today? ... What stories do you want to tell? How do you want to tell them? Because I tell you what, you go and do it, you do it today, because tomorrow we might be down the road. So that gave us great energy and great freedom.”