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Black and White self portrait by Mark Crane/Director, Actor, Theatre, Film and Puppeteer

Mark Crane has dark surreal and unconventional approach to his puppet constructions and filmmaking. This is born out of his experience working on films at an early age from Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Judge Dredd.  He is completing his Master of Arts in Film and TV production in 2025.

An award-winning film, music video and theatre director focusing on narrative based stories using shadow puppetry and live action creating fable like tales of epic yet home-spun proportions.

His work has been exhibited at Figur I Fossekleiva (International Festival of Puppetry) in Norway, a complete works, and films at Watford Museum in 2020 alongside running puppetry workshops for Watford Borough Council.

‘’The humble DIY style gives the video and endearing & alluring quality’’ stereoboard.com

He was the Winner of Best Experimental film at the Jim Thorpe Film Festival in 2019 alongside nominations for Best LGBTQ and Cinematography for ‘Heaven’s Rage’. Winner of the Super 9 Mobile Film Festival in 2018 for best music video and winner of REEL Puppetry Film Festival with Best of the Festival 2019.

AWARDS AND CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Bed of Foxgloves (Actor) Short Film​

Winner Best Music Video Dark Story Film Festival 

Nite at the Puppet Asylum Puppet Slam USA 

LA Guild of Puppetry 48HR Film Project Winner/Theme  

Reel Puppetry Film Festival Best of Festival 

Winner Super 9 Mobile Film Festival 

Winner Jim Thorpe Film Festival Best Experimental 

​​Finalist Indie Best Film Festival Music Video 

World Book Day Roald Dahl Parade Watford (Artistic Director) 

Big Word Festival: Forlorn Hope 50th Anniversary Star Trek (Theatre) 

UK Heritage Days: Shadow Town Watford Museum (Artistic Director) 

Dreamthinkspeak: 'Underground' Brighton Theatre Royal (Actor)

Venice Bienalle: 'Life of a Star' (Actor)

Rock-A-Hula Rest Home Brighton Fringe (Theatre) 

PVA Labculture Birmingham (Residency)

Judge Dredd Dir: Danny Cannon (SPFX Junior Tech)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstien Dir: Kenneth Branagh (Puppeteer)​​

Nightbreed Dir: Clive Barker (Creature Technician)

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit Dir: Robert Zemeckis (Runner)

Labyrinth Dir: Jim Henson (Runner)​​​​​

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