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Mark Ficente is an author, speaker, an award-winning writer, director, producer, most well known for directing the Sleeper documentary

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. Being born in apartheid

era, South Africa, and witnessing a number of atrocities,

Mark found himself propelled to question certain fundamental assumptions at a very young age.

Beliefs about human behavior, morality, existentialism, and mysticism.

He spent a good part of the late 80s and early 90s shooting anti-apartheid films

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