MRW Directs
MRW Directs is a hub for the work of documentary filmmaker and journalist Mathew Ramirez Warren. His feature-length documentary We Like It Like That 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 has been broadcast repeatedly on the PBS show America ReFramed, and is available to stream on all PBS digital platforms. Mathew also directed and produced 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. His latest project, Weed Dreams, was supported by the Berkeley Film Foundation, SFFilm, and the Sundance institute.
MRW Directs
Excited to share that Weed Dreams is now available as a docu-series!
We began filming for this project in 2018 after Oakland launched the nation’s first ever cannabis equity program. The program was designed to give entrepreneurs convicted of weed crimes in Oakland, and those who lived in the primarily Black neighborhoods targeted for arrests, a chance at ownership in California's new legal cannabis industry. The story follows several entrepreneurs participating in the program through 2022 as they navigate the ups and downs of trying to break into the industry, while striving to bring positive change to their families and communities.
This story and the story of the many other cannabis equity programs now in place around the country is still ongoing. Weed Dreams is just a piece of that story. It is an attempt to put a human face on what was a very novel concept back in 2018, and share the experiences of a few businesses over those early years. Perhaps one day we'll follow up with a new episode to cover everything that's happened since...
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