Mark Mahon (director)

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| image = Film Director Mark Mahon in New York.png

| caption = Mark Mahon in New York

| name = Mark Mahon

| birthname = Mark John Mahon

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1973|04|01}}

| birth_place = Cork City, Ireland

| occupation = Director, writer, producer

| yearsactive = 2000–present

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Mark Mahon (born 1 April 1973){{citation needed|date=December 2021}} is an Irish film director, writer and producer from Cork city, Ireland.

At the age of 22, Mahon was severely injured in an accident and spent several months in hospital recovering. During this time, he started writing.{{Cite web | title = €80m Brian Boru blockbuster will 'showcase' Ireland to world | url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/80m-brian-boru-blockbuster-will-showcase-ireland-to-world-29277981.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | date = 19 May 2013 | accessdate= 29 May 2013}} He wrote several screenplays, one novel and one graphic novel called Freedom Within the Heart, which as an unproduced screenplay, won Best Screenplay at the 2005 Action on Film International Film Festival.{{Cite web | title = AOF 2005 Results | url=http://www.aoffest.com/results05.html | website = aoffest.com | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071010062833/http://www.aoffest.com/results05.html | archivedate = 10 October 2007 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.aoffest.com/hollywood_scriptwriter_story.pdf | title = Hollywood Scriptwriter | website = aoffest.com | access-date = 6 May 2008 | archive-date = 21 October 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071021211328/http://www.aoffest.com/hollywood_scriptwriter_story.pdf | url-status = dead }} He subsequently set up a film production company, Maron Pictures.{{cite web|url = http://www.maronpictures.net | title = Maron Pictures website | website = maronpictures.net}}

In 2007, Mahon directed his first feature-length film Strength and Honour starring Michael Madsen and Vinnie Jones.{{cite web|url = http://www.strengthandhonorthemovie.com | title = "Strength And Honour" movie website | website = strengthandhonorthemovie.com }} It was released on 20 November 2007 in Ireland and was tested on a limited capacity in the United States on 7 December 2007. As a producer on the film, Mahon was nominated for a "Rising Star Award" at the 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards.{{Cite web |url=http://www.irishfilmboard.ie/irish_film_industry/news/?id=651 | website = irishfilmboard.ie |title=Irish Film Board nomination announcements |access-date=13 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002131657/http://www.irishfilmboard.ie/irish_film_industry/news/?id=651 |archive-date=2 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}

In May 2013, Mahon was reportedly launching a graphic novel about Brian Boru, Freedom Within The Heart. At the same time, Mahon expressed plans to make a movie of the same title.{{Update inline|reason=Despite the claims in this 2013 article (and other 2014 gossip magazine articles) it doesn't seem like this film project ever went ahead. Ideally the status would be clarified for the reader. |date=December 2021}}