Mathew Ramirez Warren

Mathew Ramirez Warren is a Native New Yorker, raised in Manhattan and currently living in Brooklyn. He received a B.A. in history and English from the University of Michigan in 2004 and an M.A. from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism in 2008. He has worked as a reporter, writer, editor and video journalist for the New York Times, NBC and Wax Poetics Magazine. In 2010, he began work on his upcoming feature-length documentary about Latin boogaloo music, We Like It Like That. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council of the Arts and a successful Kickstarter campaign, the film was completed in the fall of 2014. We Like It Like That had its world premiere in March 2015 at the SXSW Film Festival. The movie has since screened around the world at various festivals including Film Society Lincoln Center's Sound + Vision, Alta Fidelidad, Ambulante California, Doc'n Roll, In-Edit Barcelona and the Urbanworld Film Festival where the film received the Best Feature Documentary award. The film will be officially released later this year through Saboteur Media.