Public profile signals
Roles
- Co-Founder
- Filmmaker
Organizations
- Invisible Hand Productions
- Speakables
Locations
- Vancouver, BC
Tags
- accessibility
- documentary
- film
- speech-to-text
- vancouver
Directory / Public Person
Co-Founder at Invisible Hand Productions
Mark Achbar (born 1955) is a Canadian filmmaker and co-founder of Speakables, a Vancouver technology startup developing speech-to-text devices to aid the deaf and hard of hearing and people working in noisy environments. He is best known for directing The Corporation (2003) — the all-time top-grossing feature documentary made in Canada — and Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992). He is also an a...