Mark Hartley

Mark Hartley is a multiple ARIA award winning and AFI award winning filmmaker.

His highly acclaimed debut feature, “Not Quite Hollywood” - featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, Barry Humphries and Quentin Tarantino - debuted in North America at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival and has subsequently screened at over 50 festivals around the globe (including The AFI Fest in Hollywood) before it’s upcoming US theatrical release in late July by Magnet Releasing.

At the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, “Not Quite Hollywood“ won Best Documentary and the film also won both the 2009 FILMINK award and the Film Critics Circle Association (FCCA) award for Best Documentary - voted by a national body of professional film critics in Australia. In 2009, Hartley was selected as one of the 6 “International Trailblazers” – recognizing creativity and innovation – and his work was honored at Mipdoc in Cannes.

Prior to embarking on “Not Quite Hollywood”, Hartley was Australia’s busiest music video maker, directing over 150 clips for international artists including Sophie Monk, Wheatus, Powderfinger, The Living End, The Cruel Sea and Joe Cocker. He has received a total of 8 ARIA nominations (winning two statuettes) and has been nominated for an International MTV Award.

In addition, Hartley directed the official music video of the XXVII Olympic Games, the video for Walt Disney’s theatrical release, “The Jungle Book 2” and also directed a number of long form documentaries on classic Australian Films working in collaboration with Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi and Phillip Noyce. These documentaries have been released internationally through Criterion in the United States.

He was recently involved in the production of the International Blu-ray release of “Baraka” and also created content for Severin Films and “Blue Underground” in the United States.