Mark Hartley combines a blazing-eyed passion for making documentaries about making films with an enthralled addiction to genre, all glued together with a love of schlock. His re-visioning of 70’s flick Patrick , made with its original producer, is likely to be very, very interesting…
When Mark Hartley’s exuberant documentary celebration of Ozploitation films, Not Quite Hollywood, burst onto screens as opening night film at the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival, he was already dreaming and planning about making Patrick, his first fiction feature, which is having its international premiere at this year’s MIFF on the 27th July.
