Mario Azzopardi

Mario Philip Azzopardi (born in Ħamrun, Malta 11 September 1944; resident of Toronto, 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 2008 he directed all eight episodes of the highly acclaimed and award winning HBO Canada/TMN miniseries ZOS: Zone of Separation, which he co created and produced. Mario Philip Azzopardi should not be confused with Maltese poet, short story writer and columnist Mario Azzopardi (born 1944), who is also involved in theatre and directs the Malta Drama Centre.^[1]

In 1971, while still a student at the Royal University of Malta,^[2] he directed Gaġġa, presumed to be the first full-length feature filmed entirely in Maltese. Transferred to digital format and enhanced, the film was re-released in Malta in March 2007.^[3]

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; the play was eventually presented at the Manoel Theatre in January 2008.

Azzopardi was educated at St Aloysius' College (Birkirkara, Malta), and the Royal University of Malta.

Azzopardi is married to Therese and has three children, Lara Azzopardi, Kyra Azzopardi and Yari Azzopardi.

Partial filmography

• Gagga (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)
• Wiseguy
• The Stork Derby (2002)
• Savage Messiah (2002)
• The Wives He Forgot (2006)
• Still Small Voices (2007)
• Lies and Crimes (2007)
• Angela's Eyes
• Stargate: Atlantis
• Jeremiah
• Dinotopia
• The Outer Limits
• Stargate SG-1
• Dead Man's Gun
• F/X: The Series
• Two
• In the Heat of the Night
• Counterstrike
• The Flash
• Night Heat
• E.N.G.

References

1. ^ For the other Mario Azzopardi, see [1].
2. ^ "Portrait of the artist". http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=47723. 
3. ^ "‘Gagga’ to be screened again". http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=46920. 

External links

• Mario Azzopardi at the Internet Movie Database
• Malta's Who's Who
• Weblo.com - Savage Messiah Still Photo

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