Mark Flood

Mark Flood was born on September 30, 1996, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, as the second child of two school teachers. He is of Irish, Hebridean and Lithuanian heritage. He attended St. Cadoc's Primary School and St. Ninian's High School. Due to a lifelong fondness for film, art and animation, he attended classes at the Glasgow School of Art as a teenager, and began working on his own projects. Mark began working regularly as a cartoonist in his teens, teaching himself the art of animation and screenwriting, learning from mentors in the industry, and borrowing equipment to produce his own material. He assembled a small team of fellow aspiring animators, whom he met at school and art school, to produce animated shorts. His team still work with him today, and in the early days, the group completed their work in their homes, garages and attics. The short cartoon films he directed as a teenager were screened in various festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, allowing him to begin establishing himself in the industry as a writer, actor, voice actor, animator, producer, and director. Flood officially founded his own film company in 2014, to create feature-length films and television series using traditional hand-drawn animation, and eventually employing first-class animators from around the globe. He was the recipient of the Young Scot Award for Enterprise in 2015, and was named in June 2015 as one of 10 of Scotland's "Young Rising Stars" by Glasgow's Evening Times, a list that also included singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt, Katie Archibald, Millie Innes and politician Mhairi Black. Flood splits his time between his hometown of Glasgow, Scotland, and London. His upcoming work includes the 30-minute animated film Operation Alley Cat, and a live-action sitcom Strivers and Skivers, with several feature films and television series in development. Outside of his work, Mark loves reading, motorbiking, playing guitar, and playing board games such as chess. He is active in campaigning for issues close to him, such as human and animal rights, healthcare and culture.