Guard. The film, starring Gordon Pinsent, chronicled the first 100 years of the Canadian military. Mark produced, wrote and directed the film that played each Remembrance Day on Global Television for five consecutive years.

The film also won the Platinum Award for Best Documentary Feature and Best Director honors at the Houston International Film Festival in 2001.

While working for a publicly traded production company in Toronto called EnBlast, Mark started developing documentary projects for Enblast president and former Paragon Entertainment studio head Richard Borchiver. Mark created, wrote and executive produced the documentary specials Earth’s Natural Wonders and Mysteries of Sacred Sites and sold them to the Discovery Channel (US).

The success of these documentary projects, along with Mark’s other dramatic features he produced while in Hollywood, earned him an invitation from the Government of China to produce a series of documentary and dramatic films for the prestigious Museum of History in Hong Kong.

Mark lived in Hong Kong for a year working with a team of 35 to produce 18 films for the museum’s permanent exhibit.

Mark’s adventurous spirit has brought him to exotic locations across the globe, but none more impressive to him than the Arctic. After a vacation in Alaska (pictured) in the mid-1990s, Mark fell in love with the majestic beauty of the landscape. Subsequent trips to the Arctic in Canada and in Alaska inspired Mark to get involved with northern research programs.

As a member of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the Explorers Club, the Canadian Council for Geographic Education and the Canadian Circumpolar Institute Mark learned a lot about the environmental issues affecting these fragile eco-systems and, by extension, the world. As a result, he decided to create a unique documentary profiling how these issues are impacting on Antarctica.