Author, speaker, and award-winning Director/Cinematographer Mark Vicente was part of the creative team behind the sleeper hit “What The Bleep Do We Know?!” Several books have been written about the film’s remarkable grassroots marketing campaign, which led to its unprecedented success.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 sneaking into TV studios at age 16, he enrolled in film school where he specialized in Directing, Cinematography and Theater Lighting Design. After Film School he began working his way up the ranks of the camera department, starting as a Camera Assistant, then an Operator and Steadicam© Operator.His first big break came as Director of Photography on the musical “SARAFINA,” starring Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992, he set his sights on Hollywood and relocated to Los Angeles to shoot his first studio picture for Disney entitled “FATHERHOOD,” starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry. Over the next 12 years, he went on to shoot an additional 14 feature films and numerous Documentaries and Commercials.Perhaps because of the very obvious iniquities in his native South Africa, he found himself propelled to question certain fundamental assumptions at a very young age. Beliefs about human behavior, cosmology, existentialism and mysticism. Unifying his love of science, philosophy and film-making, Mark’s dream of creating cinema to inspire and provoke thought began to emerge with the creation 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 “Bending Time”, a Sci-Fi thriller packaged with a VR and biofeedback video game and the Sci-Fi drama "Terra Antiquis”. Mark is always on the lookout to collaborate with others who share his love of story-telling and the examination of what it means to be human.