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Mark Hanlon
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter

Mark Hanlon is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for directing the 1999 independent film Buddy Boy . Starring Aidan Gillen and Emmanuelle Seigner, it premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival in the Cinema of the Present section. [1] [2] [3] He also wrote the Warner Bros. horror film Ghost Ship , starring Julianna Margulies and Gabriel Byrne.

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Awards and nominations

Hanlon received a national News & Documentary Emmy nomination in 2016 for producing and directing A Strange Relativity, a documentary about neurosurgeon and cancer patient Paul Kalanithi, writer of the best-selling memoir When Breath Becomes Air . He received three regional Emmy nominations for health, science & environment feature stories and for outstanding achievement in video journalism in 2018. [4] [5] [6]

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