Mark Tonderai (born 1974) is a British-ZimbabweanPress Book House at the End of the Street, 2012 entrepreneur, director, writer, actor and former disc jockey. He is co-founder of the London-based production company Shona Productions with his wife Zoe Stewart.Biographical detail
: WarpX.co.uk website. He directed the

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television series '' The Five'' which first aired in April 2016 on the Sky 1 channel.

Career

Radio

Tonderai began his career in the media working as a writer, producer and presenter for radio. From early 1993 until late 1998 Tonderai was heavily involved in radio, and was the writer and producer of ''The Mark Tonderai Show'', hosted on

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, and ''the Jam''. Tonderai was also involved in numerous

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projects, such as the ''Worldly Wise'', ''Rainbow Nation'' and '' Week Ending'', as well as ''Kiss 100's Rude Awakening'', hosted on Kiss 100 London.

Television

He worked as writer, editor and director on '' Friday Night's All Wright'', made by

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, and worked on

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's ''Home and Away'', as well as

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's ''Prickly Heat''.

Acting

In the early 2000s, he appeared in such productions as ''

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'' and ''

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'', plus many others.

Film

His debut film as screenwriter-director, called '' Hush'' was released in 2009. A psychological thriller, starring William Ash and Christine Bottomley '' Hush'' is a British horror/thriller film about a young couple on a motorway journey who are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver following a near accident. Tonderai and producer Mark Herbert from Warp X are in talks to co-produce Tonderai's next script, another thriller called ''I Die at Midnight''. Film industry magazine ''

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'' has reported that Tonderai has his next five films already planned, including a Western called ''Stance''. In the summer of 2010, he directed the psychological thriller '' House at the End of the Street'', based on a short story from

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. Filming of ''House at the End of the Street'' took place in

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, Ontario, Canada, and it was released in September 2012.

Filmography

Film

*''

'' (2000), actor *'' Dog Eat Dog'' (2001), writer/actor *'' Hush'' (2008), director/writer/executive director *'' House at the End of the Street'' (2012), director *'' Day of the Dead: Bloodline '' (2018), writer *''

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'' (2020), director

Television

*'' The Five'' (2015), director *''

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'' (2015), director *''

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'' (2016), director *'' Time After Time'' (2017), director *'' Lucifer'' (2017), director *'' Gotham'' (2017-2019), director *''

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'' (2018), director *''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...

'' (2018), (2023), director * '' Impulse'' (2018-2019), director * '' Tell Me a Story'' (2018), director * ''

Nightflyers ''Nightflyers'' is a science fiction horror novella by American writer George R. R. Martin, released as a short novella in 1980 and as an expanded novella in 1981. A short story collection of the same name was released in 1985 that includes the ...

'' (2018), director * '' Daybreak'' (2019), director * '' Castle Rock'' (2019), director * '' Locke & Key'' (2020), director * '' Big Sky'' (2021), director *''

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'' (2021), director

References

http://www.altrap.com/write/2007/06/htikmm-mark-tonderai-on-radio-1/

External links

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Reviewgraveyard.com interview with Mark Tonderai
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