Marc Stone, M.A.

Curriculum Vitae

 

PROFILE

• MA (Distinction) Film Studies, De Montfort University, UK

• 4 decades of experience in television and film

• Director (multi-camera, single camera), writer, cinematographer, composer, on camera host/performer/interviewer

• Opera (live, recorded), musicals, children’s series, documentaries

• Multiple awards for broadcast and corporate production

• Laudatory newspaper and website reviews of work

• Published essay and article writer for newspapers and magazines

• Lecturer for private organizations

• Guest lecturer for Ryerson’s final year RTA students

• Mature work ethic, innovator, series creator

• Runner, cyclist, rower, canoeist

 

FILMMAKING EXPERIENCE (Highlights)

 

Opera Atelier

• Director, Cinematographer, The Return of Ulysses: An Opera in the Making, a documentary short to promote Opera Atelier’s new production of the Monteverde opera featuring rehearsal footage and interviews with the co-artistic directors and two lead singers

Salt and Light Television

• Director, Broadway Bares: Vanessa Williams, multi-camera shoot of concert and on stage interview at the Sheen Centre in New York City
• Director, Panes of Glory, 4-part series on history of stained glass windows in St. Pete’s Seminary, London, Ontario featuring choirs, scripted host, and interviews

90th Parallel Productions

• Director, studio performance segments (multi-camera), House of Dreams, a film adaptation of a theatrical work by Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

Bravo Canada (Saturday Night at the Opera series)

• Director, Persée (complete two-hour opera), live-cut with seven cameras

CBC TV (Opening Night series) – Toronto, Paris, Versailles

• Director, Writer, Rebirth of an Opera: Persée in the Court of Atelier, a two-hour performance documentary following Opera Atelier’s re-mount of Persée, a 300-year-old French baroque opera

MHS Productions

• Director, Writer, Producer, Preventing Violence in the Workplace, drama/documentary featuring three re-enactments of violent confrontations in hospital with round table analysis of each scenario

• Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Growing Together: Family Centred Care at SickKids; Together We’re Better: Interprofessional Practice at SickKids

• Director, In Her Own Words, Ann Cavoukian, PhD., Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario

• Director (multi-camera), Privacy by Design, Ann Cavoukian, PhD., Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
• Director, Writer, Composer, beyond the dream: A Legacy of Nursing at SickKids, drama-documentary about the 131-year history of nursing at the hospital

• Director, Writer, Making Wine With…4-part, RJ Spagnols promotional series with host on location in Niagara vineyard

OMNI Television – China/Toronto

• Director (shoot only), Cinematographer, Chun Yi: The Magic Behind the Legend, performance documentary about a Kung Fu musical, shot in Beijing
• Director (shoot only), Composer, Musician, John Cripton: The Legend Behind the Legend, shot in Shanghai and Beijing

NewsReach Canada - Toronto, Montreal, Salzburg

• Director, Writer, Cinematographer, VNRs, corporate, medical, government, and public relations videos, live-cut, multi-camera shoots for websites

Kathanjali Productions Inc. - India

• Director of Photography, Borrowed Fire, performance documentary about shadow puppetry, shot in Kerala, India

Aaron Lubell Productions - Vancouver

• Director, Director of Photography, Sharing the Experience, a documentary profile of four women undergoing radiation therapy for breast cancer

Aaron Lubell Productions/MHS Productions - Vancouver

• Director, Elmer, Gordon, Terry and Thomas, for B.C. Cancer Agency, documentary about radiation therapy for prostate cancer patients (Vancouver)
• Director, Elmer Gill in Concert, performance documentary to promote a world charity tour by Elmer Gill and his jazz     quartet (Vancouver)

Toronto Hospital

• Director, Writer, Confidentiality: A Sacred Trust, drama- documentary featuring re-enactments of breaches of trust in the hospital setting, a host, and interviews with staff

CBC TV (Alive! series) - Vancouver/Toronto

• Director, Writer, story about ballet dancer and physiotherapy issues
• Director, Writer, story about Dr. Dean Ornish and his reversing heart disease program, shot in San Francisco

Yaletown Productions - Vancouver

• Director, Writer, corporate and government films and videos for Vancouver clients, RCMP, Department of National Defence, Ministry of Tourism, B.C. Institute of Family Violence (English, French)

TRP – Toronto, UK

• Director, Writer, corporate, government, multi-camera television series, films and videos
• Director, Writer, Express Yourself, featuring a mime interacting with a voice in the ether and observing dramatic re-enactments of communication missteps among Public Works Canada employees
• Director, IMAX Filmmakers Symposium, documentary covering student filmmakers participating in symposium in Bradford, UK
• Director, Wizard’s Oak, (TVO) multi-camera music and drama studio series for children about geometry (English and French versions)

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute

Part-time Lecturer in multi-camera studio production for final year RTA students

Creative Direction

• Director, A Place to Belong, a documentary about the closure of government funded institutions and community re-integration of developmentally handicapped people, Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services

CTV

• Director, Writer, Field Host, Lifetime series, multiple stories

Avalon Classics International

• Writer, Director of edit, Peking National Acrobats, one-hour documentary for television
• Writer, Director of edit, To Strive for Gold, history of Olympics documentary for 1984 summer Olympics, Buick USA

Synergex Agency

• Writer, Touchdown, half-hour drama for TTC
• Director, Producer, Writer, Beads of Time, Fisons, UK, educational film for respirologists

CBC Radio

• Director, Producer, over 50 radio dramas

CBC Television

• Writer, Producer, Host, Creator, Marc’s Grab Bag, 17-part series set in a coffee house featuring young musicians, actors, comedians, singers, sculptors, painters, mimes, and filmmakers
• Director, Writer, What’s New, 8 episodes, news and current affairs stories re-interpreted for children
• Director, Writer, Songwriter, Through The Eyes of Tomorrow, 8 episodes, a current affairs and variety series for high school and university students

Shunka Productions

• Director, Writer, commercials and industrial films

CTV

• Writer, Producer, Host, Creator, Marc’s Music Shop, a 31-part children’s series set in a music shop with visiting musicians introducing their instruments and performing with Marc

Harlequin Films

• Director, Cinematographer, composer, Unknown Citizen, film adaptation of W. H. Auden’s poem

Independent Film/NFB

• Director, Writer, Cinematographer, About Roslyn, a documentary short about a young artist

Independent Film

• Director, Writer, Composer, Family Album, dramatic short

 

CBC RADIO DRAMA

Ghostly Affairs

• Creator, Director, Producer, 4-part series featuring a recently deceased vaudeville couple, Doc and Alice, who bequeath their country home to a performers’ benevolent society to provide vacations for actors down on their luck as the ghosts who live in the attic entertain and counsel the troubled guests.

Bandit and the Mayor

• Creator, Director, Producer, 7-part series featuring a boxer dog who speaks like Bogart and mind controls his master, the mayor of the town.

Livewires

• Creator, Director, Producer, 28-part series featuring characters who run a bizarre answering service, starring Martin Short as the owner/operator.

 

AWARDS

Gabriel Award for Panes of Glory series

WorldFest-Houston Silver Remi Award for Rebirth of an Opera: Persée in the Court of Atelier

Canadian Public relations Association Hygeia Award for Confidentiality: A Sacred Trust

ITVA Golden Maple, Silver Birch, and Judges Choice Awards for Express Yourself

Ontario Government Forum Awards - Gold Award for A Place to Belong

 

EDUCATION

M.A. Film Studies, Award of Distinction, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Marc Stone

2727 Yonge St. Suite 505
Toronto, ON  M4N 3R6

Tel: (416) 484-7092
Cell: (416) 948-6900
Send a message

 

REFERENCES

Stuart Hanson
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication

Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester   LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 250 6196
E: shanson@dmu.ac.uk
W: www.dmu.ac.uk/somc

 

Tim O'Sullivan
Professor of Media and Cultural History

De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester  LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 257 7317
E: tosulliv@dmu.ac.uk
W: www.dmu.ac.uk/somc

 

Gordon Henderson
Executive Producer, 90th Parallel Productions Ltd.

T: 416-364-9090
E: gordon@90th Parallel.ca
W: www.90thparallel.ca

 

Marshall Pynkoski, Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg
Co-Artistic Directors, Opera Atelier

St. Lawrence Hall,
157 King Street East, 4th Floor
Toronto, ON M5C 1G9

T: 416-703-3767 Ext. 225
E: mpynkoski@operaatelier.com
W: www.operaatelier.com

 

Gita Hosek
Director of Programming and Production
Salt and Light Television

T: 416-971-5353
E: ghosek@saltandlighttv.org
W: www.saltandlighttv.org