Mark was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1965. Taking his first photograph at age four, he quickly discovered his passion for being behind the camera. After film school, he began working his way up the ranks in the motion picture camera department, first starting as a camera assistant and later mastering the Steadicam™. Before going on to light and shoot music videos and commercials, Mark worked as a news-cameraman in apartheid South Africa.
His first big break was working as Director of Photography on the musical "SARAFINA," starring Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992, he set his sights on Hollywood and shot his first studio picture for Disney entitled "FATHERHOOD," starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry. At the age of 26, he became one of the youngest cinematographers to shoot a big budget studio picture. Over the next eight years, he went on to shoot an additional 14 feature films.
Mark soon found much of the subject matter in Hollywood to be sorely lacking. Driven by the conviction that tales of greatness, nobility and introspection could be as exciting and financially successful as the subjects of revenge, pillage and plunder so beloved in the film industry, he decided it was time to only tell stories he cared deeply about. In 2000 he embraced his destiny of becoming a director.
Mark's dream of creating cinema to uplift and inspire began to come to fruition with the release of "What the BLEEP do we Know?!" Always on a search to find new and revolutionary ways to raise awareness through film, he is currently developing a number of projects utilizing some grounbreaking human potential 'technologies'. At present, Mark is slated to direct a political drama entitled "Occam's Razor" which begins production in 2008.