years_active birth_place birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
1981 -- present polotsk , russia 1956 mark joffe
 mark joffe film director , producer
mark joffe

mark joffe -lrb- born 1956 -rrb- is an australian film and television director .
he has directed feature films , telemovies , and drama series .
joffe `` learned his trade at crawford productions '' , working on `` carson 's law '' , `` special squad '' and `` neighbours '' .
his first major directing job was the first episode of `` the great bookie robbery '' -lrb- 1986 -rrb- .
he agreed to direct the irish-american film `` the matchmaker '' after gaining approval to have the script rewritten by irish writer graham linehan , one of the writers of father ted
