‍Dr Marcus Dillistone, FRSA is a British film director, producer, writer, philanthropist, and scholar based in Beverly Hills and London. Over forty years he has accumulated more than 160 film credits and 55 international awards.

‍His film The Troop - a 35mm CinemaScope portrait of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, much of which was funded out of his own pocket - received a Royal Premiere at BAFTA in 1999. He organised the event and hosted HRH The Princess Royal. HM Queen Elizabeth II subsequently borrowed a copy to screen at Sandringham over Christmas.

‍He has directed Oscar-winning talent such as Sir John Mills, Lord Attenborough, and Glenda Jackson, and worked with Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated cinematographers including Jack Cardiff, Ronnie Taylor, Alex Thomson, and Phedon Papamichael. He served as Associate Producer Music for the Emmy Award winning Athens 2004 Olympic Ceremonies, and has been a creative workflow consultant to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood.

‍Marcus has produced philanthropic films used by the Spinal Injuries Association, the BackUp Trust, and the British Brain and Spine Foundation, often part-funded at his own expense. His film Outreach was distributed to every sitting MP at the request of the SIA and BackUp. He still hosts the films free of charge, so that the communities they were made for can go on using them. His films in this genre have had a significant social impact.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Design and Film, a PhD in Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, and has peer-reviewed publications in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, and Quality of Life Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Other adventures in creativity include the creation of two art suite installations built out of ice and snow at the Icehotel in Arctic Sweden, one of them for London Underground's 150th anniversary. While at university he led a three-month expedition retracing the Klondike gold rush trail across Alaska and the Yukon. He has also co-hosted an evening with Stephen Fry.