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Marq English

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About Me


I'm a Filmmaker, Actor (hire me, I'm cheap!), Reiki Healer and Paranormal Investigator. I've directed an assortment of digital diversities that occupy the MEV Universe which includes various short films including DAWNRAZOR (2001), SHELF LIFE (2003), ON MY PATCH (2003), REVERSING THE POLARITY - MEMOIRS OF TIME AND SPACE (2004), SOLSTICE AT DAWN (2005), WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MARK FIELDING (2006), the documentaries FAIRYTALE ADVENTURE (2003), FANZ (2007) a film about followers of Doctor Who and this year completed my first feature film, the improvised comedy RETURN TO RAVENSWOOD.
For three summers in the mid to late nineties, I worked as a Drama Counsellor, Specialist and Dept Head at Camp Vacamas in New Jersey, USA.
I am the founder and co-organiser (along with David Wells) of the annual SUTTON FILM FESTIVAL, a showcase event in South London that promotes new and existing filmmakers work. I'm the co-founder of SPIRAL, a paranormal investigation team in the UK that produces video episodes to download or view online..
I have a keen interest in Cult TV, Movies, Music, Earth Mysteries, folklore and the paranormal and would like to raise a glass to George Lucas, a certain Timelord, Stan Lee, Hamish Miller and the Avebury Monument for being responsible for my present state of mind!
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My Interests


Filmmaking, Acting, Ancient History, Paranormal Studies, Dowsing, Music, Cult TV, Movies, Marvel / DC Mags, Sci-Fi nonsense, Comedy, Travelling.

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Music:

Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Levellers, The Wonder Stuff, The Mission, Julian Cope, Dead Can Dance, Bob Marley, Dave Mathews Band, Stone Roses, Japan, PWEI, Happy Mondays, The Pogues, T Rex, Bowie, Soundtracks of John Williams, John Barry, The Beatles, Fairport Convention, Viper Squadron, Steeleye Span, Folk.

Movies:

Original Star Wars Trilogy, Taxi Driver, Bond flicks, Star Trek II-The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek-First Contact, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Highlander, Superman the Movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Clerks, Fantastic Voyage, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, LOTR Trilogy, What the Bleep do we know?, Quatermass and the Pit, The Wicker Man (the original of course!), Casino, Raging Bull, Dog Day Afternoon, Baraka, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Jackie Brown, The King of Comedy, MIB, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens, Blue Velvet, Batman, Heat, Borat, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Planet of the Apes (the original of course!), Rocky Horror, Buffalo 66, Shelf Life, Return to Ravenswood.

Television:

Doctor Who (Classic and New), Fawlty Towers, Twin Peaks, The Office, The Avengers, Blakes 7, Star Trek (Classic and New), Blackadder, Edge of Darkness, Danger Man, The Prisoner, Gerry Anderson, Alan Partridge, X Files, Babylon 5, Robin of Sherwood, The Saint, Buffy, Extras, Brass Eye, Spaced, Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Highlander, Torchwood, Firefly, The Young Ones, The Day Today, Jamm, Father Ted, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Life on Mars, Battlestar Galactica (Classic and New), Timequake, Most Haunted, Documentaries.

Books:

The Modern Antiquarian - Julian Cope, The Sun and the Serpent - Hamish Miller & Paul Broadhurst, Target Novelisations of Terrance Dicks (when I was a nipper).

Heroes:

Not sure about the term heroes but influences are....The Doctor (of course), George Lucas and Stan Lee to name a few.

My Blog

Fanz and Fantoms

If there's a lesson to be learned from editing a documentary, its that whatever structure you have in place, throw it out! As I'm finalising the edit on FANZ (my flick about DOCTOR WHO fans), I've r...
Posted by Marq English on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:03:00 PST

Spirit comes out to play!

We were invited by those top folk at Dark Encounters Paranormal Group and The Spiritual Connextion Awards to film a Charity Ghost Hunt at Southsea Castle in Portsmouth on Friday 19th October. With Spe...
Posted by Marq English on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:30:00 PST

Potobello, Conventiosn and Nylon

Been a bit full on lately. When I mean full on, I don't mean some big dude sitting heavily on my person but creatively. We've just announced a big Sci-Fi project that's just going into pre-production ...
Posted by Marq English on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:39:00 PST

More funny sketchy stuff

Wednesday September 19th is the time to see a demonstration of consumer atrophy at Doug's Sketchy Night at Lowdown At The Albany, 240 Gt Portland St, starts 8pm, £7 if you're a man....yet more fun and...
Posted by Marq English on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:00:00 PST

Lowdown at the Albany

See us perform at Lowdown At The Albany, 240 Gt Portland Street, London on Wednesday, as part of Doug's Sketchy Night.  We will be performing a short sketch based around health issues betwee...
Posted by Marq English on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:02:00 PST

Together as One

Things are gearing up for a joint investigation between Spiral and UK5 Paranormal on 30th June. This has been developed over the last month between Ray Jordan of UK5 and myself and should prove very i...
Posted by Marq English on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:30:00 PST

Spiral Investigates

Blimey, we were brave weren't we? Brave? You? Sod off&well, we did our first paranormal investigation on 20th April with our new team SPIRAL (Surrey Paranormal Investigation and Research). Joining mys...
Posted by Marq English on Tue, 08 May 2007 03:47:00 PST

An Evening with Da Vader.

Had the pleasure of attending a small private talk last night with the man who was Darth Vader, Dave Prowse. As he lives locally, he kindly gave a fascinating insight into his career and life. Looking...
Posted by Marq English on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:31:00 PST

Rural Ramblings

Here I am sitting at the stage door of my theatre that's recently been graced by the mighty Henry (The Fonz) Winkler, Bobby Davro and Rik Mayall, bringing you tit-bits on various happenings in our uni...
Posted by Marq English on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:15:00 PST