Michael john warren biography
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Oh, Hello on Broadway (2017)
Michael John Warren is a six-time Emmy nominated writer, director, showrunner, and executive producer known for highly stylized yet story-driven documentary series, music documentaries, and innovative concert films.
Most recently, Warren was the Showrunner for Amazon Prime's explosive true-crime series, Free mild. The critically acclaimed series features an investigation of the systemic corruption and racism in the Philadelphia Police Department and the Pennsylvania Judicial System-unearthing new facts that ultimately led to the release of Meek Mill and the dismissal of the charges that kept him entangled in the system for twelve years.
Warren made his directorial debut with what many consider to be the greatest hip-hop film of all time - Jay-Z's Fade To Black. Since then, he has gone on to kontur many of the biggest names in the music industry with Drake: Better Than Good Enough (2010), Nicki Minaj: My Time Now (2010), N
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Michael John Warren on Testing the Waters in “Freediver”
“Freediver” starts out with the question that the vast majority of people watching it will be asking themselves as Alexey Molchanov is hooked up to a machine to track his breathing. A Swedish physiologist, Erika Schagatay, awaits the results, having started studying Molchanov for the past 16 years when he entered the sport that requires one to hold their breath as they reach unfathomable depths in the water without any oxygen tank to assist them. Michael John Warren’s documentary eventually becomes a biography of Molchanov when the season ahead of him becomes too intriguing to stray from, but it leads with the science to make his achievements all the more impressive when rather than suggesting he’s superhuman, you come to understand how deep he must reach within himself to achieve what he does.
After leaving the lab, Warren follows Molchanov on a series of dives across the globe where the world record holder in
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Full Circle: From Lollapalooza to Lolla—Director Michael John Warren
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Michael John Warren is an artist. Everything about him screams it—but he’s also a consummate professional; a juxtaposition that feels a little odd, but honestly, in Hollywood, is kinda necessary. Nearly every writer, director, actor, make-up artist, set designer (and the list goes on!) starts as an artist before they realize you really have to be a businessperson. Where was someone to tell us we needed that degree to succeed?
It’s called show business, after all.
But back to Warren, this man has figured out how to walk that fine line, and done it well. He’s the kind of individ you want to listen to for an hour because isn’t it great when filmmakers are excited about what they’ve made? You can feel it when you watch their work, and how they are just that little bit more animated when they talk about it after.
In Warren’s case, it’s the recent debut of Lolla: The Story of L