A 30-year industry veteran, Producer and Broadcaster Mark Edwards began his career in New York in the 1990s supervising the post-production of a 10-hour documentary series on the history of American cinema. Based in Paris since 1995, he served for four years as Director of the USC Shoah Foundation (founded by Steven Spielberg) in France before working across Europe as an independent producer. In 2012, he joined ARTE France as Head of International Coproductions. In 2021, he was appointed Director of Documentaries in Europe for Netflix. In his role as a broadcaster, he has served as a commissioning editor on more than a hundred documentary films and series. His credits include The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (ARTE/PBS/BBC), Exterminate All the Brutes by Raoul Peck (ARTE/HBO) and The Billionaire, the Butler and the Boyfriend (L'affaire Bettencourt) by Baptiste Etchegaray and Maxime Bonnet (Netflix). Among others, he helped develop and fund the award-winning feature documentaries Notes on Blindness by James Spinney & Peter Middleton and 209, rue St Maur by Ruth Zylbermann. At ARTE he also helped create Generation Africa, a collection of 25 films from the African continent, and served as Executive Producer of the feature documentaries Zinder by Aicha Macky and No-U Turn by Ike Nnaebue. Since his departure from Netflix in February 2024, he has returned to working as an independent producer and media consultant. He has extensive experience teaching documentary production and writing (INA, Femis, Lussas) and has been a member of several different film commissions (CNC, Ciclic).
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