Mark is passionate about film and music and has dedicated his career to independent cultural cinema exhibition since the late 1980s; first at Plymouth Arts Centre then Cornerhouse (now HOME) in Manchester, and since 1994 at Watershed where he is Cinema Curator. He has curated various seasons and tours ranging from New Portuguese Cinemas to a Claire Denis retrospective and worked with partners to set up Filmic, exploring connections across film and music and Cinema Rediscovered, “the UK’s leading festival dedicated to classic cinema” Sight & Sound. He is also Director of Film Culture at UWE.