"Old Lady River" - Loren Kate.
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FILMS FOR CHANGE
"Is there a person you met while travelling who reaffirmed your faith in humanity?"
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"All the time. That’s another reason I keep doing the journeys. On my last major journey around the Indian Ocean I met some inspirational types who are battling for the planet. Mark Jones, a crocodile catcher and expert in the remote Kimberley region of Australia, was an inspiring character who spoke brilliantly and powerfully about our need to look after our world. With people like him out there perhaps we’ve got a chance."
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Simon Reeve - BBC Presenter.
https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/the-world-according-to-simon-reeve/
STORIES
From an early age, Mark has been enamoured with stories.
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Mark began his career behind the camera and as he became more experienced, he found himself being drawn to the art of story telling through film. Sometimes dark, sometimes light and all manner of shades in between, his work illuminates the oldest stories that live amongst the greatest cultural landscape on the planet, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. A place he calls home.
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Stay up to date on all the latest news, productions, events, and community work Mark's involved with by having a look at the articles, clips and links below.
NEWS
Media Buzz
STORIES IN STONE
2024
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Writer, Director, Producer.
Producer: Naomi Cleaver
Co-Producers, Co-Writers, Talent: Mitch Torres and Albert Wiggan.
Co-Producer, Co-Writer: Joseph Kiely.
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"Stories in Stone" was invited into the AIDC FACTory pitch in March 2021 and set up a series of meetings with national and global production houses, broadcasters, agents and distributors as the word spreads.
UNDERMINED - TALES OF THE KIMBERLEY
2019
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DOP and co-Producer.
Producer/Director/Writer: Nic Wrathall.
Producer/Writer: Stephanie King.
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A 4 year project of blood, sweat and tears bringing a voice to those who are rarely given one.
Australia’s vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. UNDERMINED investigates the politics of an area now branded “the future economic powerhouse of Australia,” and what this means for our First People and their unique cultural landscapes. As pressure from industry exposes the limits of Indigenous land rights, what will remain of over 200 remote Aboriginal communities? We follow young leader Albert Wiggan, veteran cattleman Kevin Oscar and Senior Elder June Davis through David-and-Goliath battles to preserve their homelands, asking the question: for whose benefit is this development?
"In my Father's Country"
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Mark collaborated with his old friend, Mitch Torres (Producer) to mentor debut Director Vincent Carter in the short film "In my Father's Country" which was commissioned by NITV/SBS. A beautiful little film about a young indigenous family vlogging their way around country.
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Director and Camera mentor.
HOW ART BEGAN - BBC 2
2019
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Fixer. Producer. Camera.
Blast Films/BBC.
Director: Morag Tinto.
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Mark joined Sir Antony Gormley and the BBC team on their Kimberley leg of their global rock art production - "How art began".
Al Jazeera - Young Black and behind bars"
2020
Field Producer
Mark joined journalist and story teller extraordinaire Drew Ambrose to peel the layers back of a hidden Australia seldom seen. A gut wrenching journey through the forgotten cracks in a wealthy, modern 'society'.
CURRENT PROJECTS
2025
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Pastoralist Evan Pensini - West Australian soil champion.​​
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Mark was thrilled to head down to the Pilbara to create a short film featuring Evan and Robin Pensini of Cheela Plains Station. The couple won the 2025 Soil Champions award for their outstanding efforts in moving cattle across their property and revitalizing local ecosystems. Their work is a remarkable testament to the power of collaboration with nature. It's inspiring to see such dedication to sustainable practices in the heart of the outback.
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2025
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Adele Oliver "Home Tonight"
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Mark teamed up with the outrageously talented Adele Oliver to create a 'visualiser' for her latest single "Home tonight". Adele just recently took out the West Australian songwriter of the year award and her star is on the rise.
2024
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Wunambal - Gaamberra and the Frobenius expedition
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In 1938, a German Anthropological team ventured into the Kimberley and recorded the Aboriginal people in photos and art. Fast forward to 2024 and the WG people are reunited with their ancestors through these magnificent artworks.​​​
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Mark was honoured to be commissioned by the Wunabal-Gaamberra people and the Frobenius Institute for a major exhibition at the Museum der Weltkulturen (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and the Museum Fünf Kontinente (Munich, Germany).
2024
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Diversity - A Kimberley Adventure
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Mark was invited by the team at Diversity Charters to create an array of products for promotion. Mark jumped at the opportunity to do a 2 week adventure along the Kimberley coast to film the wet season in all of its glory.
2024
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Dunkeld - An environmental success story.
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Mark was commissioned by Dunkeld to create a film espousing the virtues of their fire and ecological programmes which is groundbreaking within Australia. A great story in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
2024
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Two Ways - The Kimberley Rock Art Legacy
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"Two Ways" is a beautiful film about the collaboration between science and the worlds oldest culture. It was shown at the World Archemetry conference at the University of Melbourne and ACMI cinemas in Melbourne to 3 sold out shows and is now touring nationally. Coming to a theatre near you.
2023
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Kimberley Aboriginal Regional Body (KARB)
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Mark was honoured to be commissioned by the major Aboriginal Institutions in the Kimberley to produce a film which documented the trajectory of Aboriginal organisation in the Kimberley since 1972 as it advanced toward "The Voice" referendum and beyond. A labour of love from Nookenbah to now.
2023
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Ben Hall - An ode to a outlaw.
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Mark joined forces with his old friend Wil Thomas to create a rare music video about an outlaw with a very human side.
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2023
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The Boornoornoor Project
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After following a science team for 10 years dating rock art in the Kimberley, it was time to document the deep stories connected to the art and therefore begin to date stories. A project very close to Mark's heart following Augie "Boornoornoor' Augustine telling the worlds oldest stories in the magnificent Kimberley region.
2022
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Ngaranyin Cultural Series
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30 years on from his first visit into Ngaranyin country, Mark was commissioned to produce a series of cultural vignettes made with Elders for the future generations in the third archive - film. A subject very close to Mark's heart,
