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Mark Manning is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and director of internationally-acclaimed films, including The Road to Fallujah. Mark began his career as a deep-sea commercial diver and plied his trade in the world’s oceans for 20 years. Immediately following the tragedy of 9/11, he put down his hard hat, picked up a camera and became an immersive filmmaker, traveling over 10,000 miles across America to make the feature documentary American Voices, an in-depth look at the American culture and psyche following the crisis. Mark then traveled to Iraq soon after the Iraq war began. He became the only Westerner to live with the people of Fallujah after the city was destroyed, and produced two award-winning documentaries: Caught in the Crossfire and The Road to Fallujah. Mark was the co-founder and director of an international humanitarian relief organization specializing in delivering medical aid to combat zones in Iraq during the war. The agency ran twenty successful missions during the height of the conflict.
Mark’s decades of experience as a commercial “deep-sea” oil field diver grant him unique insight into this project: He worked for the very company tasked with diving operations on the BP well blowout. His experience in the offshore oil industry running large offshore operations, including oil spill responses and capping leaking sub-sea wellheads, enables him to understand and address the complicated and mysterious nature of the offshore oil and marine industries. As an industry insider, he understands the critical aspects of offshore drilling and major spill response operations and plans.
Mark’s decades of experience as a commercial “deep-sea” oil field diver grant him unique insight into this project: He worked for the very company tasked with diving operations on the BP well blowout. His experience in the offshore oil industry running large offshore operations, including oil spill responses and capping leaking sub-sea wellheads, enables him to understand and address the complicated and mysterious nature of the offshore oil and marine industries. As an industry insider, he understands the critical aspects of offshore drilling and major spill response operations and plans.
