Marcus Markou

Marcus Markou is a British filmmaker, playwright and entrepreneur. His first short, The Last Temptation of Chris (2010), starred Ed Stoppard, and his debut feature, Papadopoulos & Sons, starring Stephen Dillane, was self-distributed in UK cinemas in April 2013 and later sold to the BBC, ARTE and Netflix. His plays include Age-Sex-Location (Riverside Studios, 2004) and Ordinary Dreams (Trafalgar Studios, 2009). In 2014 he was nominated for Breakthrough British Filmmaker by the London Critics' Circle, and he founded Double M Films. His short Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times was selected for more than 50 festivals, winning prizes including Best Short at the Maryland Film Festival. In 2023 he released the feature The Wife and Her House Husband as a double bill with that short.