ABOUT

Marcus Plowright is a Emmy Award winning and four time Bafta nominated Director and Producer. He began directing in 2015 with his debut, Muslim Drag Queens for the Channel 4 (UK), narrated by Sir Ian McKellen. The film became the forefront of Channel 4's True Colours alternative voices drive in 2016, and earned Marcus a nomination for Breakthrough BAFTA talent.

Since then, Marcus has become of the UK's foremost auteur documentary Directors, with his most recent work, World's Collide: The Manchester Bombing about the terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in his home city of Manchester (UK), earning him a BAFTA 2023 nomination for Best Factual Series.

The year before, Marcus’ first feature documentary for ITV (UK), In Cold Blood, about the biggest treatment disaster in the NHS history, won an International Emmy for Best Current Affairs film in 2021, as well as UK nominations for Best Current Affairs film at the Royal Television, Grierson and Amnesty International Awards. The Telegraph described it as "a staggering investigation to make your blood boil".

Further recognition in the United States came earlier for Marcus in 2017, after his series for the BBC, American High School, about life inside a 99% African American High School in South Carolina sold internationally and had a six week run on National Geographic.

2019 saw Marcus win a Grierson award for his Channel 4 (UK) film, The Football Club and a further BAFTA nomination (Best Single Documentary) for The Murder of Jill Dando, the BBC's highest rated documentary that year. In 2020 he filmed and directed Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health with the Duke of Cambridge.

Presently, Marcus has just Directed his first series for Netflix, Who Killed Jill Dando? out now on Netflix.