Mark Hartley

Mark Hartley got one of his first film credits, as music video director, on David Parker's 1993 cult film Hercules Returns.^[1] He is also a film editor and screenwriter.^[2] He has said that he "direct[s] as an editor", as his background is also in editing.^[3]

In 2008 he produced the documentary film Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!,^[1][4] followed by another documentary, Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010),^[1] about the Filipino film industry, which was written and directed by Hartley.^[5]

In 2013, he made Patrick, a remake of the 1978 supernatural "Ozploitation" classic of Australian cinema, also named Patrick.^[6][7] The film was produced by Antony I. Ginnane.^[8]

He also wrote and directed the documentary film Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, released in 2014.^[1] The film is about Israeli-born cousins Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, who founded Cannon Films and changed the way films were made and marketed in Hollywood.^[9][10][11]

Hartley directed the thriller feature Girl at the Window, starring Radha Mitchell and Vince Colosimo, released in 2022. The film was written by Terence Hammond and Nicolette Minster, and produced by Antony I. Ginnane.^[12]

• His Master's Voice (1992; short film) (comedy) As editor; directed by Yvonne Pecujac^[13]
• Mercy (1993; short film) As editor; directed by Mark Bakaitis^[13]
• A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (2004) (documentary)^[14]
• Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) (documentary)^[13]
• Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) (documentary)^[13]
• Patrick (2013)^[13]
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) (documentary)^[13]
• Girl at the Window (2022)^[13]