Mark Noonan

Mark is an Irish writer/director based in London. His debut feature You’re Ugly Too (2015) starring Aidan Gillen and Lauren Kinsella, premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival where it was nominated for a Crystal Bear and the Best Debut Feature award. It played in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2015 where it was nominated for both Best International Feature and the Audience Award, and earned a nomination from the European Film Academy for the Young Audience Award in 2015. You’re Ugly Too was awarded Best Debut Feature at the 2015 Galway Film Festival and was the winner of the 2015 Director’s Guild of America/SDGI Finders Series, as well as Best Screenplay Awards at both the 2015 Skip City International Festival in Tokyo and the 2015 Athens International Film Festival. His original screenplay Tyger, Tyger is in development with the Irish Film Board and was presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in 2016. Mark’s feature documentary Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect was released in Irish cinemas in 2017 and has since secured several international distribution deals worldwide including sales to Kino Lorber in the United States and Salzgeber in Germany. Mark is a member of the European Film Academy and the Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland.