SPECTACLE - Key Persons

Mark Saunders is an award-winning independent filmmaker, media activist, and lecturer. He has been engaged in participatory media practices since the very first UK community video projects in the early 1980s. He founded the groundbreaking community access media co-operative Despite TV in 1982 and Spectacle Productions in 1990. He is a founding member of INURA (International Network of Urban Research and Action). Mark's films have been broadcast internationally and exhibited at galleries including the Tate Britain, the National Film Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Musee des Beaux-Arts, the National Media Museum, and the Photographers Gallery.