MarkMcNeill
- Producer
- Director
Mark McNeill has been making documentaries for over 20 years. En route he has shown a knack for offbeat factual programming, including varied shows featuring psychologist Nigel Latta. In 1999 McNeill launched Razor Films. The company's CV includes I Am the River and the acclaimed Why Am I? The Science of Us. With Dark Tourist in 2018, McNeill and Carthew Neal became the first Kiwi producers to make a series for Netflix.
Screenography
Biography
Mark McNeill has long been interested in human nature and science. So much so, that after studying psychology, zoology and town planning at Auckland University, he was offered a Doctor of Philosophy fellowship at Cambridge University, in the field of cognitive psychology. But after having a rethink about his life, he decided to swap lab rooms for clapperboards.
Awards
2017 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Documentary (shared with Paul Casserly and Irene Dol): Why Am I? The Science of Us
2017 New York Film and Television Festival
Best Documentary: Why Am I? The Science of Us
“Mark McNeill makes TV the way Steven Seagal fights Tommy Lee Jones with a knife in Under Seige: the pointy end goes right in the brain. His production company, Razor Films, tends to produce TV that seeks to dig deep in your grey matter, exploring and illuminating new ideas or dropping bits of science that will drop your jaw.”