Marian established MAGO Films in 1999 producing successful, award-winning factual entertainment including the landmark ABC-commissioned WW1 documentary, “The Waler: Australia's Great War Horse” or “Great War Horses” – international title which was nominated for an AFI/AACTA Award for Best Cinematography and a Screen Producers Australia Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. “Great War Horses” also screened BBC4, Netflix and NGO. “Life Architecturally”, nominated for Best Arts Documentary. This documentary was screened at the NY Architecture and Design Film Festival and FIFA in Montreal. “The Fabulous Flag Sisters” won Best Documentary at the Roma Film Festival and a WA Screen Awards for excellence in Documentary Production in 2009. Marian has created factual lifestyle content for ABC, Discovery Channel, SBS Food NITV, NGO and Foxtel over the years. These include four series of “Surfing the Menu “ with Curtis Stone for ABC and Discovery, followed by “Surfing the Menu Next Generation”, a reboot of this globally successful food travel format. Screen West awarded Marian an Outstanding Achievement Award in International Marketplace in 2006. Others shows “Recipes that Rock”, “On Country Kitchen”, an indigenous food travel series for NITV and SBS and two series of “Born to Cook” with Jack Stein for UKTV and SBS Food Network, an environmental short film for Discovery Channel, entitled “Shark Soup” about the shark fin trade filmed in HK.