Mark Duggan Films

Factual: Café Diagnosis was a series of creative workshops that led to an immersive installation performance in the city of Manchester in 2018. The course was documented in this documentary: https://vimeo.com/294640658 This follow up film details the second Café Diagnosis course, which led to two performances - a Christmas show in December 2019 & a Valentine's Day show on February 14th 2020. NHS Greater Manchester Mental Health: "Funded through the Manchester Wellbeing Fund, Terry Corbett began Café Diagnosis, ran by service users, for service users, to challenge stigma within society and ourselves. The 10 week course on being creative through writing, drama and filmmaking." Written & Narrated by Terence J Corbett. Filmed & Edited by Mark Duggan.

Factual: Spinning off from the Café Diagnosis project, this series of short factual films, developed by Terence J Corbett for the NHS, look at individual experiences with the mental health services in Greater Manchester. The films were written by service users and then scenarios were created in which actors (Miranda Benjamin, Keith French and Louise Wilson) could perform service users words over a fictional conversation, or 'Tez Talks', with Terence J Corbett. This film sees Miranda Benjamin playing 'Helen' who had a complicated pregnancy. 'The Power of Storytelling' series conceived and developed by Terence J Corbett. Filmed & Edited by Mark Duggan (EP Showreels).

Factual: Spinning off from the Café Diagnosis project, this series of short films, developed by Terence J Corbett, look at individual experiences with the GMMH NHS mental health services in Greater Manchester.  The films were written by service users and then scenarios were created in which actors (Miranda Benjamin, Keith French and Louise Wilson) could perform a service users words over a fictional conversation, or 'Tez Talks', with Terence J Corbett. This video sees Keith French playing 'Andrew', a carer whose partner suffered from psychosis. 'The Power of Storytelling' series conceived and developed by Terence J Corbett. Filmed & Edited by Mark Duggan (EP Showreels).

Factual: Spinning off from the Café Diagnosis project, this series of short factual films, developed by Terence J Corbett for the NHS, look at individual experiences with the mental health services in Greater Manchester. The films were written by service users and then scenarios were created in which actors (Miranda Benjamin, Keith French and Louise Wilson) could perform service users words over a fictional conversation, or 'Tez Talks', with Terence J Corbett. This film sees Louise Wilson playing 'Mary', who describes an experience between her son and a police officer. 'The Power of Storytelling' series conceived and developed by Terence J Corbett. Filmed & Edited by Mark Duggan (EP Showreels).

Factual: Documentary highlighting the making of (ahem, "baking of") the 'Café Diagnosis' project. Written & Narrated by Terence J Corbett. Filmed & Edited by Mark Duggan (EP Showreels). www.facebook.com/cafediagnosis

Feature Film: Trailer for Erik Knudsen's feature film, Cleft Lip. One Day Films: "What happens when fertility becomes a commodity in a fractured society? Oedipus reborn. Sophocles’ classic of classics adapted for the 21st Century by Erik Knudsen into a contemporary tragedy about the unravelling of the most fundamental of relationships in society; that between a father, a mother and a child. Cleft Lip is set in the context of a world where donor eggs and sperm are freely traded as increasing numbers of people are having to resort to fertility treatment as a consequence of social changes, individual decisions and biological imperatives." Starring Reece Douglas, Miranda Benjamin and Keith French. Cinematography by Mark Duggan. Sound by Karen Lauke. Written and Directed by Erik Knudsen.

Short Film: 'Distraction' is a monologue about sexual abuse that was originally written for the 'Come Closer' production at The Royal Exchange Theatre (Manchester), which ran between 24th-26th April 2015. Since then, Terence J Corbett has dreamt of adapting the piece for film...here is the result. Written and performed by Terence J Corbett. Filmed and edited by Mark Duggan.

Feature Film: A mockumentary following a small group of elite players preparing for the world championships of GoldenEye in a world which has forgotten all about the classic Nintendo 64 game. Starring David Burnip, Daniel Bruce, Bill Blackwood, Terence J Corbett. Filmed by Mark Duggan. Sound by Karen Lauke. Written & Directed by Jim Miskell.

Short Film: "It's all about choice. When Adam faces the personal decision of whether or not to tell his sister that he has cancer, the outcome will alter his fate." Directed by Alex Gilbert. Edited by Mark Duggan (as MS Draczuk).

"A young couple on their way home from visiting one of their parents discover, through a graphic and disturbingly prophetic incident on the road home, that their lives and aspirations have been drifting apart and that the future they thought they might have together is viewed very differently by the two of them. This Mark Duggan film, based on a screenplay by Erik Knudsen, is an evocative short road movie about the painful dissolution of a relationship." Starring Harris Matthews & Toni Sherwood-Pearce. A One Day Films Production of A Mark Duggan Film: Written by Erik Knudsen; Directed, Shot & Edited by Mark Duggan. Producer Mark Duggan / Executive Producers Erik & Janet Knudsen. http://onedayfilms.com