Mark Allan Kaplan is an internationally acclaimed award-winning filmmaker, and a transformational media arts consultant and researcher. His creative works have been shown on cable television, in theaters, schools, and colleges, and at film expositions around the world. Mark has worked as a producer, director, writer, and editor on industrial, educational, short subject, and feature films and videos. He personally studied with Robert Wise (director of The Sound of Music and editor of Citizen Kane), King Vidor (director of Our Daily Bread and War and Peace), Daniel Petrie (director of A Raisin in the Sun and Resurrection), Lester Novros (filmic expression, animation, special effects, and large-format film pioneer), and Robert Boyle (production designer for Alfred Hitchcock). Mark has a B.A. in Motion Picture Production from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television; an M.F.A. in Motion Picture Directing from the American Film Institute; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He has conducted and published research on the transpersonal dimensions of the cinema and the experience of divine guidance across religious traditions and cultures; and was awarded the 2008 Integral Life Award for his research on the application of integral theory for cinematic media development, production, and distribution.