ABOUT

Currently located in Brisbane/Meanjin, Mitchell Marion is an award winning Australian/British writer, director, producer, and actor, who is passionate about crafting powerful and affecting queer narratives for audiences. Mitchell spent 13 years as a creatively active participant on London’s queer nightlife, art, and activism scenes. It is due to this powerful and ongoing connection to their queer community, that Mitchell strives to bring more complex, challenging, and boundary pushing LGBTQ+ stories to screen.

 

After receiving FIRST CLASS HONOURS from THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON, specialising in screenwriting and directing, their thesis film G O’CLOCK premiered at the BFI FLARE FILM FESTIVAL in 2016. The film shed a light on London’s underground Chemsex party culture, specifically the drug GHB, which still kills a gay man every week in London. G O’Clock screened at many of the major LGBTQ+ film festivals around the globe, including OUTFEST in LA, CHERIES CHERIS in Paris, and was nominated for Best British Short at the IRIS PRIZE FILM FESTIVAL in Cardiff.

G O'CLOCK is available worldwide on DVD and VOD landing on PECCADILLO PICTURES BOYS ON FILM 15: TIME AND TIED (2016) and the BEST OF CHERIES CHERIS VOL2 (2017).

 

Mitchell’s first independent short film THE SUIT WEARETH THE MAN is shot by Ali Farahani, DOP of the Academy Award winning short film THE SILENT CHILD, and started its festival run at the BOLTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 and the AESTHETICA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2020. THE SUIT WEARETH THE MAN has won BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the NEW YORK CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS 202O, BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM at the MELBOURNE OVERLOOKED FILM FESTIVAL 2021 and BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the TERROR IN THE BAY FILM FESTIVAL 2022.

THE SUIT WEARETH THE MAN is available worldwide on DVD and VOD landing on PECCADILLO PICTURES BOYS ON FILM 22: LOVE TO LOVE YOU (2022).

 

Mitchell is also an AD and miscellaneous crew member, who's always looking for work! They are actively developing short, feature and television projects for future production, and is always looking to collaborate!

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CONTACT

Email - MITCHELLMARIONFILMS@GMAIL.COM

Instagram / Twitter - @MITCHMARION