Marc Fennell

Film critic

In 2002, Fennell was a winner of the first AFI Young Film Critics Competition. He then became the film critic and reporter for Sydney radio station FBi Radio from 2003–2006.

During this period Fennell was selected as one of four presenters (along with Megan Spencer, Jaimie Leonarder, and Fenella Kernebone) of a revamped version of SBS's long-running The Movie Show following the departure of former hosts, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz, in mid-2004. Although Fennell was given a separate role to the other three hosts, handling DVD reviews in his own segment, he was described after the new format's debut as the "most natural in front of a camera". Fennell remained with the show until June 2006, when the show went on hiatus, returning in a different format (and with a different team) in 2007.

Fennell covers cinema across the ABC Radio Network including ABC Local Radio and the national youth broadcaster triple j. Fennell presented a weekly film segment on triple j tv for its run on ABC1 and ABC2. He presented the weekly movie segment on the Network Ten morning program The Circle from 2010 until it was axed in August 2012. Fennell carried on his weekly segment on Network Ten's Breakfast program. Fennell has appeared as a film critic on many Australian radio and television programs including Sunrise, A Current Affair, Ten News, ABC News Breakfast and he is a regular guest on Showtime's review program The Movie Club.

Fennell also regularly produces digital video projects exploring cinema culture including Bollywood For Beginners: a series for SBS Television about the history of Bollywood. He also co-produces a web series about movie trailers, Coming Sooner, with Nick Hayden and Nicholas McDougall.

Fennell's first book, That Movie Book, was published by HarperCollins in December 2011.

Hungry Beast

Fennell presented and reported on all three series of the Andrew Denton produced show Hungry Beast, aired on ABC1. He primarily covered digital media, popular culture, gaming and technology. In 2011, Hungry Beast was nominated for a Microsoft I.T Journalist Lizzie Award for its technology coverage. Fennell was one of nine members of the team to be selected by Denton to develop online content for Zapruder's Other Films. Prior to his engagement on Hungry Beast Fennell had worked with another of the presenters, Dan Ilic, developing a well known YouTube parody of the Freeview launch as part of their live comedy show Massage My Medium at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Hungry Beast was cancelled in November 2011.

Technology journalism

Fennell hosts the ABC's technology radio program Download This Show which examines the latest developments in social media, consumer electronics, digital politics, hacktivism and online privacy. The program airs on Radio National, ABC Local Radio Digital and throughout Asia Pacific on Radio Australia. Fennell also regularly produces reports on technology for programs on ABC News 24 including News Exchange, The Drum, Weekend Breakfast and the Technology Quarter.

The Feed

Since May 2013, Fennell has been one of four main presenters on the live SBS current affairs program, The Feed. In addition to his main role hosting the show Monday to Thursday, Fennell's prerecorded segments have become a feature of the show, most notably his interviews with film and television stars. As the program's viewership increased, Fennell developed a cult following on social media due to the outfits which he sports each night. The hashtag "MarcFennellOutfits" has since become popular with viewers on sites such as Instagram and Twitter.

Personal life

Fennell attended the University of Technology, Sydney. His mother, a school teacher, is Indian Singaporean and his father, a photographer, is Irish.