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Mark McNeill

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.

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. Spinoff writer José Barbosa, 14 June 2016

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Interview

Mark McNeill: On making documentaries, and more...

Interview, 2015

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Why Am I? The Science of Us

2016, Co-Director, Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - Affording a Home

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - Degrees of Success

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - Screenagers: Living Online

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - Selling Ourselves Short

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - The New New Zealand

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - The Retirement Bomb

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - What Do Our Politicians Actually Do?

2016, Executive Producer - Television

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Why Am I? The Science of Us 1 - The Early Years (First Episode)

2016, Co-Director, Producer - Television

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Why Am I? The Science of Us 2 - When Teens Run off the Rails (Episode Two)

2016, Co-Director, Producer - Television

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Why Am I? The Science of Us 3 - When Genes Mix with the Wrong Environment (Episode Three)

2016, Producer, Co-Director - Television

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Why Am I? The Science of Us 4 - Dirt is Good, Dirt Poor is Bad (Episode Four)

2016, Co-Director, Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta

2014, Executive Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta 1 - The New Have & Have-Nots (First Episode)

2014, Executive Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta 2 - School Report: What's Going On (Episode Two)

2014, Executive Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta 3 - The Trouble with Booze (Episode Three)

2014, Executive Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta 4 - Killing Our Kids (Episode Four)

2014, Co-Director, Executive Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta 5 - Behind Bars (Episode Five)

2014, Executive Producer - Television

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Nigel Latta 6 - Is Sugar the New Fat? (Episode Six)

2014, Executive Producer - Television

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I Am the River

2010, Co-Director, Producer - Television

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Hidden in the Numbers

2006, Producer, Writer, Research - Television

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Who Was Here Before Us?

2000, Director - Television

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Il Magiorre - My Father's War in Italy

2000, Director - Television

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Epitaph

1999, Director, Writer - Television

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Postscript (The Best of Inside New Zealand)

1997, Director - The Business of Burglary - Television

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Back From the Dead - The Saga of the Rose-Noëlle

1996, Interviewer, Research - Television

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Assignment

1995 - 2003, Director - Television

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First Hand - A New Breed of Hero

1993, Production Team - Television

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First Hand - Two Men from Tūākau

1993, Production team - Television

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First Hand

1992 - 1996, Director, Camera, Editor - Television