Marc began his career in the film and television industry while living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After working in a variety of positions including locations, production management and event organization, he produced his first feature film in 1999, HEATER. Starring Gary Farmer (Dead Man) and Stephen Ouimette (Slings and Arrows), the award winning film showed at festivals around the world including Sundance (2000).

Stephenson continued to work as a line producer (USA Networks) until his move to Vancouver in the summer of 2000. Working as an investment analyst at the federal film funding agency, Telefilm Canada, he dove head first into the independent film community. After completing his contract, Marc joined the ON THE CORNER team to finance and complete the feature film in the spring of 2003. The critically acclaimed feature played to strong reviews across the country, was chosen as one of Canada’s top 10 films (Toronto film Festival group) and won the top prizes at the Vancouver and Valencia Film Festivals.

Marc’s recent work includes the line producing the Spike TV Series THE NEW REN AND STIMPY SHOW, business affairs duties at Front Street Pictures, teaching film financing at the University of British Columbia and co-producing Canada’s first stop motion Feature, EDISON & LEO. EDISON & LEO premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and is currently on the festival circuit. He is currently pursuing several independent projects including a Fringe Festival play adaptation, THE F-WORD. Marc splits his time between developing new projects and teaching Film Finances at the University of British Columbia for their Film and TV management program.