Marc Francis

<style>@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }@font-face { font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.caps { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Marc Francis is an award winning filmmaker whose films have been shown throughout the world. Together with his brother, Nick Francis, he was chosen by Harper’s Bazaar magazine as one of their top “Forty Under 40; household names of the future”, and named by the Observer newspaper as one of Britain’s “Rising Stars”.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">His films have been released in cinemas and broadcast on TV including <span class="caps">BBC</span>, Channel 4, <span class="caps">PBS</span>, Al-Jazeera, and <span class="caps">NHK. His</span> films have received support from the Sundance Institute, the Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation, the UK Film Council and the European <span class="caps">MEDIA</span> Fund.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Marc’s most recent film, ‘When China Met Africa’ was a co-production with <span class="caps">BBC</span> Storyville and <span class="caps">ARTE</span> France. Prior to that, he directed and co-produced ‘Black Gold’, an award-winning feature documentary about one man’s struggle to save his Ethiopian coffee farmers from bankruptcy. The film premiered at Sundance and was released in over </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">40</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> countries receiving worldwide critical acclaim.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US">Marc is also the co-founder of Speak-it Productions, which in addition to film production, develops innovative digital media campaigns to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US">mobilise audiences around their films and inspire social action campaigns. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US">For examples of previous projects see:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US"> www.blackgoldmovie.com</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US">www.whenchinametafrica.com<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>

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