1977 – The Summer of Hate, the Punk Rock Explosion and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. The latter event being the reason Mark spent that particular summer in London England. Although he was not even a teenager he was swept up in the scene that smacked of sincerity, desperation, and provocation. On his return, he immediately formed a punk band, the DeGeneRats. They hung out, played and fought together well into the 1980’s. Mark’s musical career went synthetic and found him writing and playing in many bands, most notably Glamourcult who were nominated for CFNY U’Know and Casby awards- in addition to being featured on CFNY’s Hardest Hits #3.

Mark embraced the Punk Rock, D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) attitude and diversified his interests, experimenting with film, video, home recording, and electronic music. It was then that he turned his full attention to his other passion. Mark’s voracious appetite for film had earned him the nickname 'Film Pig'.

Since 1984, this self-taught Film Maker has worked on over 40 films and 200 television episodes primarily as a Picture Editor but also in the capacity of Director, 2nd Unit Director, Sound Editor and Composer.

Mark's short film “BOYFRIEND LATTE”, a hot and steamy romance between a woman and her coffee, with Canada?s award winning sketch comedy troupe, “THE SKETCHERSONS”, has been selected by over 30 film festivals worldwide so far and has won or been nominated for many awards including BEST COMEDY and BEST DIRECTOR. He is now signing for worldwide distribution through Ouat Media

He directed the short action film SPLIT CITY about a college student with a dual personality disorder that transforms him into a Comic Book Super Hero; which recently played at the Action on Film International Festival where it won Best Action Short Film and was nominated for Best Comedy Scene and Honorable Mention at the NYTV Festival as part of X-box Live Originals.

Fulfilling the role of 2nd Unit Director on films such as the award winning cult phenomena CUBE ZERO, HYPERCUBE and AMERICAN PSYCHO 2, he has as well directed sequences for Dimension’s action films HAWKS VENGEANCE and MASK OF DEATH.