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Digi Shorts
Mark Lediard
Mark studied Radio, Film and Television Studies at Christ Church College Canterbury from 1993–1996, specialising in 16mm film editing. After graduating he was employed by Dene Films in 1997 as a production assistant / editor. At Dene he worked on TV commercials, corporate promos and TV programmes for several years as both an editor, assistant director and director. In 2003 Dene Films won the contract to supply editing services to the BBC/Zenith TV series Byker Grove for the final 4 seasons through it’s new post-production service, Transmission Post Production. Mark oversaw the technical requirements for this as well as editing several episodes of the final season.
He has won the Royal Television Society Northeast award for excellence in Post-production in 2000 and 2005 and was highly commended in 2003.
Mark still works for Dene Films and it’s new post-production arm, ImagineTX.
Mark has been selected onto Digital Shorts by Northern Film and Media with the project Maharishi
This film is a con story at heart. The central character of the story, Angus, is a broken man who believes he has done a terrible thing and consequently the woman he thought he loved has disappeared. She was eastern European and had come over to this country to work and find a husband. Drunk and disoriented one night, he meets a charismatic blind stranger who tells him he knows what happened to the girl. He leads Angus to a dark and disused lake and tells him that the girl is dead and her body is in there. Whether he knows this though supernatural means or prior knowledge is unclear to Angus and the viewer. Angus breaks down and promises to make reparations for a deed that he believes he was responsible for. The final twist sees the stranger meet up with a woman who has been watching these events unfold from the shadows. She is the missing girl and it is clear that the stranger works for her. They discuss their next victim.