Mark Tilton

Mark Tilton (born 1962 in Blackpool) is an English screenwriter, filmmaker and musician. Tilton is a frequent collaborator with director George Milton whose screenplay The Truth, a darkly comic murder-mystery satirising new age therapy, was directed by Milton and co-written with Tilton and features Elizabeth McGovern, Elaine Cassidy and Karl Theobald amongst an ensemble cast. Infidel, a drama focusing on the subject of Holocaust denial, was awarded Best UK Short Film at the Raindance Film Festival 2009. The film is part of a triptych of shorts, Sins of London, written by Tilton and directed by Milton. A graduate of the UEA Creative Writing Course, Tilton wrote the libretto for Hell for Leather, a comic film opera composed and directed by Dominik Scherrer. The film won numerous international awards, including the Prix Action Light at Locarno International Film Festival, and featured in the notorious Sensation exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum in 1999. In the late 1970s and early '80s, Tilton was guitarist and singer with iconic punk thrash band The Membranes. He later joined Marc Riley as guitarist in The Creepers. He has recently returned to music, fronting his new band Black Crack.