Mario Azzopardi
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Mario Azzopardi (born 1950 in Malta, and former resident of Canada), is a television and film director and writer. He has worked on such shows as The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1 (including its two-hour pilot), and Stargate Atlantis.
In 1971, while working with the Atturi Theatre Group, he directed Gaġġa, the first full-length feature filmed entirely in Maltese. Azzopardi left his native Malta for Canada in 1978, following a dispute with local censors and theatre authorities who, in 1977, had cancelled his play, Sulari Fuq Strada Stretta, on the grounds that it was too offensive.
On his return to Malta in the late 1990s, he spearheaded the creation of Maltese Falcon Productions plc., a state-backed film fund which was intended to promote the creation of a local film industry.
Azzopardi was educated at St Aloysius' College (Birkirkara, Malta), and the Royal University of Malta.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Gaġġa (1971)
- Deadline (1981)
- State of Survival (1986)
- Nowhere To Hide (1987)
- Divided Loyalties (1990)
- Palmer's Bones (1998)
- Bone Daddy (1998)
- Total Recall 2070 (television series) (1999)
- Thrill Seekers (2000)
- On Hostile Ground (2000)
- Stiletto Dance (2001)
[edit] Partial bibliography
- Naked as Water (poetry collection) (1996)
