Mateen O. Kemet - Creative Resume

Production - Director / Producer

Short Films

• The American Dream, 4 minute analog video short (1997)
• The Second Date, 4 minute analog video short (1997)
• Smiling Faces, 15 min analog video short (1997)
• Dust to Dust, 8 minute analog video short (1997)
• Who’s the Mack, 16mm, B&W, 10 minute short (1998)
• I Do LoVE, super 16 mm, color, music video (1999)
• silence, super 16mm, color, 22 minute short.  (2002)
• The Fillmore Flower, 35 mm, color, 25 minute short (2007)
• Oakland Be Mine, 16mm, color, 15min short (2007)
• Lost, HD, 3minute short,( 2007)
• Soft, HD, 1minute short (2007)
• Profile, HD 2 minute short (2007)
• Catch, HD 2minute short (2007)

Corporate / Promotional Projects

•  The New City School, Mini DV, 12 min, education promotional video (2006)
• REACH, HD, 10 minute, education promotional video (2007)
• Snyder – Langston, Commercial Real Estate Industrial Video, Director, (2006)

Directing Other

• The Sundarbans Tiger, Book on Tape, Director, (2008)
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Production  - Other

• Volvo, professional commercial, Assistant Cameraman,  (1998)
• Hyundai, professional commercial, Assistant Cameraman,  (1998)
• Cliff Notes student 16mm short, Assistant Cameraman,  (1998)
• La Chute, student 16mm short, Director of Photography (1998)
• Lest We Forget, Documentary, Associate producer / Videographer (2003)
• Esterlina Wineries, Documentary, Videographer (2006)
• MANGO, Fashion catalogue promotional video, Videographer, (2006)

Screenwriting

Features

• The Sundarban’s Tiger, animation
• My Divine, (in progress)

Short Films

• Lost, 3 minute short
• Soft, 1 minute short
• Profile, 2 minute short
• Catch, 2 minute short (rewrite)
• Oakland be Mine,  15 minute short
• The Fillmore flower, 25 minute short
• Dinner with Friends, 5 minute short   
• “silence”, 20 minute short
• “The Naked Truth”, 30 minute short
• “Graveyard Whispers”35 minute short

Additional Writing

• Poitier, Pimps, Pryor, and Progressives: Searching for a working definition of Black film from 1950 to the present.   A critical, academic text, (in progress).
• You Shot it, Now What?  A filmmakers guide to Film Festivals And Distribution.  A primer  (in progress).
• Boxing  Spike Lee.  A Cinema Studies Article on Spike Lee’s box office experience.
• Y tu Mamà Tambièn (and Your Mother Too, 2002): Examining race and class in modern Mexico. A historical analysis of Mexican society through cinema.
• Beyond Glory.  An in-depth , academic review of the film Glory.
• Intensified Continuity, Another Look.  An analysis of film scholar David Bordwell’s theory of visual style in modern cinema.

Honors

Chapman University Film / TV  Scholarship

Marion Knott Fellowship Award (1998-1999).

Chapman University Graduate Film Student of the Year (1999)

Director Guild of America Student Film Award (2002)

Best Performance, Hollywood International Student Film Festival (2003)

Platinum Award, Best Graduate Film Worldfest Houston (2002)

Grand Prize , Fox Searchlab Award , Urban American Filmmakers Workshop (2003)

Grand Prize , Cinematic Image (2003)

Grand Prize, Harvard Black Arts Festival (2003)

Grand Prize, Best Short Feature, Berkeley Film and Video festival  (2003)

Grand prize, Best Short, Junteenth film festival (2004)

2^nd place Best short and 2^nd place overall, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (2002)

2^nd Place, Cine Noir – A Festival of Black film (2003)

2^nd Place, First Look Student Film Festival, Denver (2003)

Special Recognition Award, Boston International Film Festival (2003)

Honorable Mention, Best performance, Carolina Film And Video Festival (2004)

Honorable Mention Best Music, Carolina Film and Video Festival (2004)

Special Directors Prize, FESPACO ARTS Festival, Burkina Faso, West Africa (2005)

Rockefeller Foundation Media Artist Fellowship nominee, (2005)

Finalist, 7^th place, On the Lot (2007)*

 Masters of Fine Arts –Film Production, Chapman University

* On the Lot is a reality show competition produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett[1]. The show, which airs on FOX, features filmmakers competing in weekly elimination competitions by making 2-3 minute films every week, with the ultimate prize of a one million dollar development deal at DreamWorks. On the Lot premiered May 22, 2007, and airs Tuesdays each week through August ,2007,