Martyn Park is an award-winning Australian writer, director and
filmmaker.Born in England, Park's family immigrated to Australia as
Ten Pound Poms when he was six years old. After a short stint living
in a Nissen hut at the Wacol Hostel in Wacol, Queensland, they moved
to Cronulla Beach in New South Wales. He left school at fifteen and
worked at the local Cronulla Cinema as an assistant projectionist. A
year later he joined Hoyts Theatres in the city of Sydney, where he
completed his apprenticeship. Working the suburban relief roster, he
screened a double feature at a different cinema every night, ten
different movies per week. He credits this with creating his passion
for cinema. On his twenty-first birthday his mother died in a car
accident.When the work of projectionists became fully automated, Park
changed careers by moving into the fitness industry. He took over a
dilapidated building in Beverly Hills and opened the Leisuredome
Gymnasium where he specialized in natural bodybuilding and weight
loss. Over his term of ownership, Park built the gymnasium into one of
Australia's premier natural bodybuilding gyms where at its peak, he
had created five national champions, one world champion, and numerous
state and regional title holders.
filmmaker.Born in England, Park's family immigrated to Australia as
Ten Pound Poms when he was six years old. After a short stint living
in a Nissen hut at the Wacol Hostel in Wacol, Queensland, they moved
to Cronulla Beach in New South Wales. He left school at fifteen and
worked at the local Cronulla Cinema as an assistant projectionist. A
year later he joined Hoyts Theatres in the city of Sydney, where he
completed his apprenticeship. Working the suburban relief roster, he
screened a double feature at a different cinema every night, ten
different movies per week. He credits this with creating his passion
for cinema. On his twenty-first birthday his mother died in a car
accident.When the work of projectionists became fully automated, Park
changed careers by moving into the fitness industry. He took over a
dilapidated building in Beverly Hills and opened the Leisuredome
Gymnasium where he specialized in natural bodybuilding and weight
loss. Over his term of ownership, Park built the gymnasium into one of
Australia's premier natural bodybuilding gyms where at its peak, he
had created five national champions, one world champion, and numerous
state and regional title holders.
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