Mark Stirton

Mark Stirton was born in the city of Aberdeen on Scotland's north east coast. Interested in movies from an early age it wasn't until his late teens that he became involved in making them. Stirton and some of his friends founded a video group at their local college, within a year he was writing and directing many of the productions himself. At the age of 25, Stirton produced his first independent short film - Spooked (1995), a psychological horror. Spooked was nominated for an award at the 1996 Glasgow film festival. Intending to make his hobby into a career, Stirton studied broadcast media at Aberdeen College then later worked as a cameraman / vision mixer for a local television station. Over this period he and his friends developed several television pilots ideas which were produced on the AVID system; marking a way forward for all his future projects. In 2003 he founded his own digital film production company, Stirton Productions.