Mathew Ramirez Warren is a documentary filmmaker and journalist, whose work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, The New York Times and NBC.
His feature-length documentary directorial debut, We Like It Like That, about Latin boogaloo music, was broadcast on the PBS show America ReFramed, made Rolling Stone’s “15 Must See Movies at the SXSW Film Festival 2015” list, NBC’s “10 must see Latino and Latin American films of 2015” list, and won Best Documentary at the UrbanWorld film festival. It is available to stream on all PBS digital platforms.
He produced and directed Eddie Palmieri: A Revolution on Harlem River Drive, an episode for the Red Bull TV documentary series The Note, and field produced several segments for the National Geographic documentary series Chain of Command, covering international migration through the Darien Jungle in Colombia and Panama, and ISIS recruitment among Trinidad and Tobago’s Muslim community.
He founded Muddy Science Productions, a full service film, television, web media and advertising production company, and has developed, produced, shot and edited content for brands, media outlets, organizations and entertainment companies, including Tag Heuer, Converse, Fania Records, TCS Global, Maker's Mark, Inside Hook, Wax Poetics Magazine, Discos Fuentes, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, The San Francisco Historical Society, California Teachers Association, The Pollination Project, Net Impact, HEAL Food Alliance, CURYJ, The Foreign Policy Association and the Institute of International Education.
He also produced and directed Weed Dreams, a docu-series available now on YouTube about Oakland's first of its kind Cannabis Equity Program. For this project he was awarded a Berkeley Film Foundation Grant, a Miller Packan Documentary Film Fund Grant, an SFFilm Documentary Film Fund Grant, and was nominated for a Sundance Institute Latine Collab Scholarship. Mathew recently co-produced an upcoming documentary about legendary Bay Area jazz radio station, KCSM.
Before focusing on documentary and video work, he spent almost 10 years in the news business, working as contributing writer and reporter for The New York Times, as well as a news assistant and page designer there, and as a digital content producer for NBC New York.
Today, he splits his time between his home base in Oakland, California and his original hometown New York City. He is available for work as a director, producer, director of photography and editor.
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