Mark Joffe

Mark Joffe (born 1956) is an Australian film and television director.[1] He has directed feature films, telemovies, and drama series.[2]

Mark Joffe
Born
Mark Joffe

1956
Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR, now Belarus
Occupation(s)Film director, producer
Years active1981–present

Joffe "learned his trade at Crawford Productions",[3] working on Carson's Law, Special Squad and Neighbours. His first major directing job was the first episode of The Great Bookie Robbery (1986).

He agreed to direct the Irish-American film The Matchmaker after gaining approval to have the script rewritten by Irish writer Graham Linehan, one of the writers of Father Ted.[4]

Awards

In 1987 Joffe won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Direction in Television for The Great Bookie Robbery. In 1991 he won the Peace Prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival[5] for More Winners: Boy Soldiers. In 1992 he was nominated for the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Spotswood.

Filmography
Feature films
Television

See also

References
  1. Mark Joffe at IMDb
  2. "Interview with Mark Joffe", Signet, 21 March 1996 accessed 19 November 2012
  3. The Great Bookie Robbery Archived 19 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine - Cinephilia
  4. Joffe, Mark : The Matchmaker - Urban Cinephile
  5. IMDb - Awards for Mark Joffe


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