Mark O'Toole is an accomplished award-winning producer, director, and writer whose diverse body of work spans film, television, and journalism. His projects have aired on CNN, NY1, and RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, and have been showcased at film festivals across the world. His career began as an assistant director working alongside Academy Award-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan on The Miracle.
View on IMDB →Beyond the Finish Line – The Great Ethiopian Run
A team of runners embark on a life-changing journey to Ethiopia. What starts as a joyous journey of discovery ends with a gut punch of reality — begging the question: what happens when the world stops showing up? Featuring legendary athletes Haile Gebrselassie, Ruth Chepng'etich, and Eamonn Coghlan in Africa's largest road race.
Outside In
A city of eight million, crushed by a pandemic, finds hope in an immigrant family's perspective during the worst of the COVID shutdown. A personal diary of an eerily empty and haunting metropolis captured while running through city streets — embalmed in a state of suspended animation.
Broadway Rising
Mark's work is featured in this documentary by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Amy Rice, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Dancing on the Face of the Moon
Black comedy dealing with a separated Irishman's descent into his own hellish midlife crisis. While directing Desire Under the Elms, his own son falls for his ingénue leading lady. Starring Tom Hickey (My Left Foot, Breakfast on Pluto) and Niall Byrne (The Miracle).
So What's in Jericho?
Co-directed by Mark O'Toole, this was one of the first festival-considered films shot on digital video — a pioneering achievement at a time when the format was still in its infancy.