Marc Fennell is a Walkley-winning journalist and an AACTA-nominated filmmaker.
Marc is the creator of the popular television series & podcast Stuff the British Stole for ABC Australia and CBC Canada. He is also seen each weeknight as the quizmaster of SBS TV’s iconic game show Mastermind.
Well known for his acclaimed documentaries, Marc Fennell hosted the Logie & AACTA nominated School That Tried to End Racism (ABC 2021), The Kingdom (SBS 2023) The Mission (SBS 2023) Rose d’Or shortlisted art-heist docu-series Framed (SBS 2021), Red Flag (SBS 2024) and Walkley nominated Came From Nowhere (SBS 2024) and the forthcoming Secret DNA of Us (SBS 2025)
Marc has been nominated 3 times for Europe’s prestigious Rose d’Or. An 8-time medallist at the New York Festivals TV and Radio Awards, Fennell is a recipient of America’s coveted James Beard Foundation Food Journalism Award, a Canadian Screen Award, an Australian Writers Guild Award, an Asian Creative Academy National Award, the June Andrews Arts Journalism Award, an AIDC Award, an Association of International Broadcasters Award and multiple Webby Award Honors. The Times (UK) called Marc the “cheerful Aussie version of Louis Theroux”.
Audible is the home of Marc’s podcast documentaries, including the hit Audible Originals It Burns (2019), Nut Jobs (2020), winner of 2 Australian Podcast Awards & an AIDC Award House of Skulls (2023), and This Is Not A Game (2023). His latest podcast investigation, Corked, will be released exclusively on Audible in 2025.
Marc anchored SBS TV’s national current affairs program The Feed for 9 years (2013-2022). He has reported around the globe from the 2019 Hong Kong protests to food crime in California to survivors of ISIS torture. Marc’s one-on-one interviews with the likes of Al Gore, Tom Cruise, Julian Assange, and Jennifer Lawrence have generated over 30 million online views.
A well-known voice on ABC Radio, Fennell presented the technology program Download This Show 2012-2024 and was triple j’s Movie Guy from 2006-2017. Marc will be launching a new ABC Radio show in 2025.
Marc has written 2 books and has also appeared on ABC’s The Drum, Network Ten’s The Project, SBS’s Dateline and Insight, and heard on top-rating ABC Local Radio accross the nation.
Marc is the dad of 2 kids and lives in Sydney, Australia. He also helped found the not-for-profit advocacy group Media Diversity Australia.
BACKGROUND
Marc had an unusual path into journalism. He won an AFI Outstanding Young Film Critics Award back in high school. His broadcasting career began as the film critic for Sydney community radio station FBi 94.5. At 19 years old, Marc was recruited to SBS's rebooted version of The Movie Show (2004). He then jumped to the ABC's national youth broadcaster triple j to present film content across its radio, television and print arms. For 11 years, Marc was Australia's most listened-to film critic - better known to over 3.1 million triple j listeners as ‘That Movie Guy’. He also hosted the largest short film festival in the world Tropfest 2014-2016
Marc was a presenter and producer for all 3 seasons of ABC TV's ground-breaking journalism experiment Hungry Beast (2009-2011) under Executive Producer Andrew Denton.
Away from the camera, Marc has been an art director, web developer, magazine and newspaper writer and oh-so-briefly a hand model. Ask him about it sometime.
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