Mark Achbar
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1955-01-01 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mark Achbar
Biography
Mark Achbar (born in Ottawa in 1955) is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for The Corporation (2003), Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1994), and as an Executive Producer on over a dozen feature documentaries.
Achbar is a graduate of Syracuse University's Fine Arts Film Program. He interned in Hollywood on the children's TV programme Bill Daily's Hocus Pocus Gang, followed by three-years in Toronto with Sunrise Films on its documentary series Spread your Wings and briefly on the CBC/Disney series Danger Bay. He subsequently worked with his friend, director/writer Robert Boyd, and received a Gemini nomination for Best Writer on The Canadian Conspiracy, a cultural/political satire for CBC and HBO's Comedy Experiments hosted by Martin Mull, and featuring Canadian-born stars: Eugene Levy, Lorne Greene, Leslie Nelson, William Shatner, Morley Safer, Howie Mandel, Peter Jennings, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Margot Kidder, and Anne Murray. The fake documentary chronicled Canada’s secret takeover of the United States. The program won a Gemini for Best Entertainment Special and was nominated for an International Emmy.
Known For
Acting
(1992)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
as Self - Interviewer
Crew
(2024)
Fairy Creek
Executive Producer
(2016)
Fractured Land
Executive Producer
(2014)
Marmato
Executive Producer
(2013)
Neurons to Nirvana
Executive Producer
(2011)
Surviving Progress
Executive Producer
(2009)
Waterlife
Executive Producer
(2009)
Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space
Executive Producer
(2008)
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action
Executive Producer
(2008)
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Executive Producer
(2006)
WAL-TOWN The Film
Camera Operator
(2003)
The Corporation
Director of Photography, Producer, Director, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer
(2000)
Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage
Producer, Director, Editor
(1996)
Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor
Executive Producer
(1995)
Ho! Kanada
Sound Mixer
(1994)
A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Animation
(1994)
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Animation
(1994)
Concision: No Time for New Ideas
Director of Photography, Producer, Animation, Director
(1994)
Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech
Director, Producer, Animation
(1994)
Toward a Vision of a Future Society
Animation, Director
(1994)
(1992)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Director, Director of Photography, Animation, Producer
(1986)
There Is a Rally
Director of Photography
(1986)
The Canadian Conspiracy
Writer