About the Author
Marc John has become a leading authority on the subject of “digital cinema” since his meteoric career rise to become Head of Digital Cinema for Odeon, the UK’s largest cinema chain, in 2002 by the age of just thirty. In this position Marc established Odeon cinemas as the market leader in showing new, digital programmes including live sport, music, video games and a variety of other non-movie events.
Alongside his role at Odeon Marc John set up Quantum Digital as a digital distribution business specialising in organising digital cinema events worldwide. The biggest to date (as of 2004) was the David Bowie live cinema gig, which over 50,000 people enjoyed in sold out venues across four continents in September 2003.
Prior to this Marc wrote and directed Jesus the Curry King (2000) - a low budget digital movie, after forming the Aylesbury Film Company in his home town, which became the first feature film ever to be shown in UK cinemas nationwide wholly in the digital format.
Marc John was also, at the age of twenty six, the Parliamentary Candidate for Sir James Goldsmith’s Referendum Party in the 1997 British General Election, where he scored one of the party’s highest vote counts. The party campaigned for the right of the British people to decide the United Kingdom’s future with the European Union.
Prior to politics Marc John lived in New York City where he applied all his energies to producing socially relevant stage plays, with his debut effort as a playwright and director enjoying a short run off-off Broadway in Manhattan in September of 1993.
Marc John currently lives in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, just north west of London. He is not married and has no children.