
mark frgs
key worker
About
Award-winning Film & Documentary Development Specialist working with major global broadcasters & private clients
united kingdom
chester
broadcast media
broadcast, film, television, video production, documentaries, broadcast television, creative direction, producing, media production, hd video, video, film production, camera, post production, new media, cross functional team leadership, strategy, commercials, digital media, radio, marketing, plan execution, reality tv, video post production, broadcasting, photography, reality, short films, content strategy
Experience

key worker
waitrose & partners

digital lead
saasc tv & jwt kuwait
* Producer The Disappeared, an investigative doc, Cats in my Dreams, feature doc, My Secret Big Cat Sanctuary and Puffin Island series. * Executive Producer with Baltica Film services in Warsaw and Europe. * Creative Lead, working in emerging Digital, Social Media and VPN environments for high value clients in the GCC and MENA region, learning new crafts in digital engagement. * Created and delivered: * 4 Dairy Queen launch commercials with J Walter Thompson. * Making 5 films for the Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City - an extraordinary feat of city engineering in the ancient salt marshes of Kuwait desert. * 2 sport event films; KWPC Wakeboard and Bahri 80%.

sessional lecturer digital production
ravensbourne
Guide and tutor second year students in all aspects of Commercial Video, from brief, pitch, research and execution in Digital Production.

channel director uk and europe
discovery communications
In charge of all aspects of UK/EMEA, Germany and Italy business. Programming, scheduling, marketing, On-Air and Off-Air with P&L responsibilities. Negotiating commercial terms with internal legal. Managed multi million budgets and a team of 13 personnel to achieve business targets. Educated in business management and delivery.

film, photography and advertising
film architecture and advertising
Film technician on 5 feature films and 4 major series. Working with architectural photographer, Richard Bryant RIBA in recording and publishing the new modern building's of our world by major architects. Two books: New Moderns and Living Museums. Personal and photographic assistant to Geoff Senior working in Advertising on launch campaigns and commercials with agencies; AMV, BBH, FCO, FCB, Dorlands, LHS, Saatchi & Saatchi, Greys, WCRS on all the major car brands and advertising campaigns. Practical learning on set. Understanding brand, marketing and culture.

co - founder and executive producer
artists in motion (a.i.m)
Co-founder of Artists in Motion, a 21st century media company and artistic partnership working on projects for Channel 5, Discovery, Channel 4, London Live, Arte, France Television, BBC WW, DCD Media and James Grant Group to create, finance and make projects; Instigated and delivered an award winning, ground breaking insight into the secret lives of Tarsiers- the worlds smallest primate, using new technology at night, deep in the jungles of Northern Sulawesi, narrated by Bernard Cribbins. Snow Leopards of Leafy London, a series about Dr Terry Moore and his unique work. Grass Roots, a football factual entertainment pilot, a Feature Documentary, Columbus, Oil Rigs & American Dreams in North Dakota and ratings busting refurbished Chaplin shorts.

media lead
geoarc
Groundbreaking exploration-science at Masaya Lava Lake Laboratory 2017 in Nicaragua. Working with GeoArc and an international multi - disciplined and local access team, to set up, document and undertake new scientific research on site in this active volcano and lava lake.

development lead
bbc television
Created and implemented a new development process, recruited and managed a diverse multi skilled team. Put successful systems into the marketplace, delivering massive returns to my development budget. With strategies for diverse manufacture of ideas, technology, talent and content for broadcast. Working with new talent and projects for BBC production and distribution at the British Broadcasting Corporation with the Natural History Unit. Helped create new mini-landmark formats, Alaska, Patagonia, New Zealand and Wild West, Additional Comercial Hours, mega-landmark Blue Planet 2, Wonders of the Commonwealth, My Family & Me strand, This Wild Life, Attenborough's Paradise Birds, Attenborough's Giant Dinosaur, Wild Metropolis and BAFTA winning Big Blue Live. Gaining experience in Public Service Broadcast, stakeholders, people and policies.

director international development
national geographic television international
Senior member of National Geographic Television working with US colleagues in global development and brand extension based in London and Washington DC. Built strategic alliances across divisions; Magazine, Society, Digital, Distribution and Channels with specialist factual ideas, broadcasters and talent outside of the US. Working with strategy, agile thinking and connected goals.

head of production and development
discovery communications
Animal Planet International. Member of Discovery's Senior Management Team. Achieved YoY exponential business division growth and profit with collegiate relationships, R&D, creative leadership and monitoring competition with reactive strategy. Oversight of 325 hours of new content annually. Led a group of 25 people across international territories and channels. Winning 123 industry awards for programme ideas developed and executed. Understanding of corporate leadership and challenge.

commissioning editor
animal planet europe
* Accountability to create and build programming, franchises, formats and content with new talent for growing channel markets. Editorial point on programme content, acquisitions, co-productions and productions. Key stakeholder in JV business turnaround from critically adverse to positive growth with project management. Award-winner with ground breakers at Jackson Hole-Crime Scene Wild * Japan Film Festival-Ocean Voyagers * Amazonas Film Festival-Wild Opera * Wildscreen-Meerkat Manor * Cine Awards * Amba and Daniel and our Cats. Other projects include * Nick Bakers Weird Creatures, RSPCA series, Farm and Stable Life, Britain's Worst Pet, Austin Steven's series, Bruce George * Snake Buster, Unearthed series and Lyndal's Lifeline.

supervising producer
discovery communications
Worked across all the emerging digital platforms, Travel & Adventure, Civilisation, Science, Wings, Kids and Animal Planet and the launch of the new Health Channel. Member of Discovery R&D Unit and a Producer for the ultra successful Home & Leisure Channel. Utilised film and advertising skills to understand broadcast environments and amplify platform growth with reach and business success.

film executive
basilisk communications
Working with Producer James McKay and independently. UK Producer MARARIA, Spanish/UK Anamorphic feature film winning 2 Goya's and a Golden Egret. Producer/Director VERITE with mime artist Lindsay Kemp. Scripts developed Angel Falls and Life is a Dream with ESF and project Spanish Boxes in Madrid. Formed international people and craft skills.

workshop director
the king's fund
Working with the world-renowned independent think-tank in Creative thinking and Leadership change Programmes. Coaching senior managers and stakeholders in new awareness, understanding and emotive leadership skills for successful operational delivery into their environments.

customer interface
john lewis partnership
Partner with John Lewis and Waitrose fulfilment .com working as Customer Facing Interface with delivery.
Education
design
city, university of london
geology
mathematics
national film & television school
film
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