Mark Sutherland
Founder – Creative Hub Productions. Movie producer, political Analyst and Public Speaker born and raised in the United Kingdom. Mark has been involved in the Television and film industry in various roles in the U.K. since 1992, making drama for the BBC, ITV and CH4.
His films have won awards on both sides of the Atlantic: “One of Us” won best drama award at the Hollywood Very Short Movie Festival, Best Actor at the BFM in the U.K., and a community Award in 2004 for “Pukka”-combining his education and film making skills to reduce youth crime. His latest short drama about communism has been in 3 U.S. film festivals; Maryland Film Festival, The Miami Film Festival, and Wasteland Festival LA.
In 2016, Mark entered the most important political event in recent UK history, producing and directing “Flexcit the Movie”: The Definitive EU EXIT Plan. Inspired by his passion for the United States, Mark teamed up with writer director Ted Wilkes of Bottle Rocket Films and produced the short film “Between Lambs and Lions”, a political thriller set against a dystopian future where the United States Constitution is null and void and the Star Spangled Banner assigned to a museum.
Mark sees many parallels between the election of President Trump and the Brexit battle occurring in the U.K., and has been interviewed on various independent media sites in the United States such as John B. Wells Caravan to Midnight, Connecting the Dots with Dan Happel, Southern Sense Talk Radio, Hear the Watchman and Calvary Chapel, as well as being a regular contributor to Politics Today on Revelation TV in the U.K.
Mark has a background in education, having used his practical skills to teach in the U.K. Senior High Schools for 14 years prior to his career in movie production.