Mark Savage
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Mark Savage is an Australia
n film
and television
screenwriter
and film director
, specializing in independent horror, cult, action and exploitation-themed films. He is influenced by European and Asian genre cinema, and has written critical reviews and articles for the Herald Sun, Asian Cult Cinema, Filmnet and Fatal Visions
. His most recent film, Defenceless, won the Best Film award at the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, specializing in independent horror, cult, action and exploitation-themed films. He is influenced by European and Asian genre cinema, and has written critical reviews and articles for the Herald Sun, Asian Cult Cinema, Filmnet and Fatal Visions
Fatal Visions
Fatal Visions was a cult film magazine from Melbourne, Australia that ran for some 20 issues from 1989 to 2000, and was edited by journalist Michael Helms. The magazine featured various reviews and interviews but focused chiefly on covering horror, action and exploitation movies...
. His most recent film, Defenceless, won the Best Film award at the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film Festival.