In the spring of 1968, Marc story edited, wrote, and field directed stories for Through The Eyes of Tomorrow, a current affairs and variety series aimed at high school and university students. Later in the year, Marc shot and directed his first independent short, About Roslyn, partially funded by the NFB. The 16mm film featured a portrait of a conflicted young painter faced with the choice of pursuing art or mathematics at university. Based on its success, Marc was commissioned to shoot and direct more 16mm educational shorts including Unknown Citizen, a mime drama based on the poem by W. H. Auden.

In 1970, Marc created, produced, wrote, and hosted Marc’s Music Shop, a 31-episode, pioneering educational CTV network series that presented musical instruments and their history, jazz and symphony musicians, and original songs to children between the ages of five and eight. After writing and directing stories for CBC’s What’s New?, a news and current affairs series for children, Marc created, produced, wrote, and hosted CBC’s Marc’s Grab Bag, a 17-episode arts and variety series introducing young professional singers, dancers, actors, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers to an after school audience.

In the late 1970s, Marc directed over fifty radio dramas for CBC including three series he created and developed during his contract. In the 1980s, Marc returned to television, directing corporate, government, and social agency films, commercials, and co-directing an 8-part children’s series, Wizard’s Oak, for TVO. Relocating to Vancouver in the early 1990s, Marc directed and wrote an award-winning film for the Department of National Defence, contributed stories to CBC’s Alive! series, and directed and wrote educational films for hospitals and clinics.

Marc returned to Toronto in the mid-1990s and continued to make medical and corporate films while developing concepts for television and shooting projects for international companies like Kathanjali Productions. As director of photography, Marc travelled to Kerala, India to shoot Borrowed Fire, a one-hour film focusing on the art and spirituality of Hindu Shadow Puppetry and featuring one of the last puppeteer/scholars of the craft and his family. Borrowed Fire was featured in exhibition at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and in competition at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The film has found a permanent homed in library collections of leading universities and colleges in the U.S. and the U.K. In worldwide distribution, Borrowed Fire continues to be a critical success.

In the autumn of 2005 and winter of 2006, Marc travelled to China to direct and co-shoot material for two OMNI Television projects: Chun Yi: The Magic Behind The Legend, a one hour documentary about the making of a Kung Fu musical; and, John Cripton: The Legend Behind the Legend, a half-hour biography about the Canadian who first brought Chinese theatre to North America in the 1970’s and co-produced Chun Yi with Beijing’s China Heaven Creation.

During the first decade of the new millennium, Marc conceived and directed the aforementioned opera documentaries and performance films for CBC and Bravo Canada. In the fall of 2006, Beyond the Dream: A Legacy of Nursing at SickKids, a drama-documentary Marc directed and wrote about the 131-year history of nursing at SickKids Hospital, premiered at the Isabel Bader Theatre, University of Toronto.

In 2008, MHS Productions completed two cinéma vérité educational HD documentaries for SickKids Hospital, one on Family Centred Care, the other, on Interprofessional Practice Teams. Marc served as both director and co-cinematographer for the projects. He earned a nomination for a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Best Cinematography in an Educational Film Award for one of the films, Growing Together: Family Centred Care at SickKids.

In May 2013, Marc Stone directed multi-camera orchestral performance sequences for House of Dreams, a feature length film based on a theatrical performance by Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra that draws correlations between baroque music and art.

Rebirth of an Opera: Persée in the Court of Atelier, a two-hour performance documentary Marc directed, wrote, and co-produced for CBC‘s Opening Night series, won a Silver Remi at the 39th Annual WorldFest-Houston. Bravo Television’s Saturday Night at the Opera series regularly broadcast Persée, the complete two-hour French Baroque opera, also directed by Marc as a live, seven-camera shoot. The DVD of Persée is a perennial success throughout Europe and North America.

In June 2010, Salt and Light Television commissioned Marc to direct Panes of Glory, a 4-part half-hour series about stained glass windows at St. Pete's Seminary in London, Ontario featuring a sixty-voice girls' choir and a forty-voice boys' ensemble. In 2012, Panes of Glory received a Gabriel Award in the Arts-National category.

In 2012, Marc earned his MA with Distinction in Film Studies from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He is a member of ACTRA, SOCAN, and an Associate Member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers.

 

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