Resume

• 2008

  MFA

  Awards:\nAcademy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Internship Grant

  2011 and 2012\nUC Boulder

  Film Studies Department exchange program

  2010\nCalArts Project Funds Award

  2010\nEastman Kodak Film Grant Award

  Film & Video

  California Institute of the Arts

• 1999

  Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - 2014\nBFI London Film Festival - 2013\nOther Cinema

  San Francisco - 2013\nFestival de Cine Lima Independiente - 2013\nImages Festival

  Toronto - 2013\nIowa City International Documentary Film Festival - 2013\nStichting Raspoetin Gallery

  Amsterdam - 2012\nBalagan at the Brattle Theater

  Cambridge - 2012\nEcho Park Film Center - 2012\nREDCAT

  Los Angeles - 2012\nCalArts’ Bijou Festival

  Valencia - 2010\nMuseum of Fine Arts

  Boston - 2007\nBlack Maria Film Festival

  Jury’s Citation - 2002\nBalagan Experimental Film & Video Series

  Boston - 2007\nOhio Independent Film Festival - 2007\nAntimatter Underground Film Festival - 2006\nDarla’s Choise Cuts

  Somerville - 2006\nAnthology Fim Archives

  New York - 2006\nNew England Film Festival - 2004\nHumboldt International Short Film Festival - 2003\nCrossroads Film Festival

  Mississippi - 2003\nOlympia Film Festival - 2002\nRuby Green Art Foundation

  Nashville - 2002\nCoolidge Corner Theater

  Boston - 2002

  Screenings (selected)

  Awards

  Images Festival

  Audience Award - 2013\nScreenwriting Expo Finalist & Genre Prize Winner - 2011\nPAGE Screenwriting Awards quarter-finalist - 2011\nAcademy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Intern Grant - 2010\nCalArts Project Funds Award

  2010\nEastman Kodak Film Grant Award

  2009\nDaytime EMMY nomination: Outstanding Achievement in Editing - 2008\nLEF Foundation Moving Image grant - 2007\nSCR(I)PT Magazine & Dimension Films screenplay contest semi-finalist - 2003\nScr(i)pt Magazine Open Door semi-finalist

  BFA

  Visual & Media Arts

  Frames Per Second

  Women in Motion

• John Warren's documentary editing reel

  John is an Emmy-nominated freelance editor who has worked on projects for PBS

  History

  MTV

  Discovery

  and countless independent projects.

  John Warren's documentary editing reel

  Phantom Engineer (2015) 3-channel 16mm cine-installation • Documentation

  Phantom Engineer is a cine-installation that employs three prominently visible projectors

  each with a loop of 16mm film

  to construct a meditation on Nashville’s…

  Phantom Engineer (2015) 3-channel 16mm cine-installation • Documentation

  FAR OUT FILM FEST 2018 trailer

  A few highlights from the inaugural Far Out Film Fest at Third Man Records.

  FAR OUT FILM FEST 2018 trailer

  John Warren's reality editing reel

  John is an Emmy-nominated freelance editor who has worked on projects for PBS

  History

  MTV

  Discovery

  and countless independent projects.

  John Warren's reality editing reel

  Vanderbilt University BMC symposium multi-media happening

  A collaboration between Vanderbilt art students

  Intermission

  and New Dialect incorporating newly composed music

  video installation

  and dance created specifically…

  Black Mountain College symposium multi-media happening

  Working with underserved students to make and exhibit personal video projects.

  Maplewood High School

  Short Films

  Film

  Reality

  Premiere

  Post Production

  Cinematography

  Video Editing

  Film Production

  Camera

  Storytelling

  Video

  Final Cut Pro

  Editing

  Avid Media Composer

  Producing

  Documentaries

  Avid

  Video Production

  Feature Films

  HD Video

  Rapid Landscape (2009)

  3 min

  super 8

  Poppy Fields Forever (2012)

  2.5 min

  16mm\n“Always know sometimes think it’s me

  but you know I know when it’s a dream.”\nFor James Benning

  Wish (2002)

  10 min

  16mm\nAn observational portrait of a day in the life of a family living in a small southern town

  this film explores how family dynamics are affected by changes in culture and commerce.

  Ellipsis (2011)

  3 min

  live 16mm projection

  Elegy (2006)

  6 min

  16mm\n“This poignant and unassuming color film interprets the dreams and memories of an elderly woman as she looks back on her life. The film searches for a deeper image of death.”\n– Black Maria Film Festival catalogue

  Impossible Chase (2012)

  8 min

  16mm\nA motorcyclist is subjected to an optical reworking -- layers collide

  blend

  and fade away.

  Coconuts & Curry (2007)

  4.5 min

  super 8\nFilmed on location in Kerala

  India.

  Sunset (2012)

  20 min

  super 8 & 16mm to HD film\nA walk down Sunset Boulevard from the ocean to the heart of the city.

  Action on the Strip (2013)

  10 min

  video\nIn Part 1 of the “Fuzz Acid Flowers” trilogy

  inspired by SoCal ephemera of the late 1960s

  sights and sounds from the psychedelic era are deconstructed and reassembled to create an homage to and critique of the era in American history when–in the words of Joan Didion–a demented and seductive vortical tension was at work.

  5 Second Noir (2012)

  8 sec

  16mm to HD film\nA femme fatale.\nA deal gone wrong.\nThe city at night.

  Venice Beach

  CA (2009)

  5 min; super 8

  16mm

  & dv

  Larimar (2014)

  6 min

  16mm\nA young girl explores a luminous beach as a mysterious voice pushes reality deeper into sublime abstraction.

  The Entertainer (2010)

  12 min

  super 8 & 16mm\nA silent movie about the end of silent movies.

  Warren

  John

  Warren

  Far Out Film Fest

  WGBH

  Phoenix High School

  Stardust Productions

  Moore Huntley Productions

  PBS Frontline

  Vanderbilt University

  KCET

  Watkins College of Art

  Design & Film

  MTV Networks

  Avid Editor for the hour-long documentary series. Episodes include Getting Away with Murder

  The Meth Epidemic

  and assistant editor for Nuclear Aftershocks and Life and Death in Assisted Living.

  PBS Frontline

  co-owner / filmmaker

  Wedding cinematography filmed with vintage super-8 cameras and custom edited

  driven by a cool soundtrack.

  Stardust Productions

  MTV Networks

  Los Angeles

  CA

  Final Cut Pro editor for an episode of the reality series

  True Life.

  video editor

  Los Angeles

  CA

  Lead Avid editor for the 90-minute documentary

  When World's Collide

  about the fall of the Spanish Empire and the birth of Latino culture. Worked closely with Emmy-award winning filmmaker Carl Byker and award winning journalist and host Rubén Martínez.

  video editor

  KCET

  Los Angeles

  CA

  Teaching art and video production to at-risk students of Phoenix High School in conjunction with CalArts' Community Arts Partnership (CAP).

  Teaching Artist

  Phoenix High School

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Courses taught: Video Art I and II

  Fundamentals of Film and Video Production

  Experimental Ethnography

  Performance Art

  The Experimental Arts at Black Mountain College

  and Navigating the Visual Arts in Nashville.

  Lecturer

  Vanderbilt University

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Courses taught: 4-D Design (Time-Based Media)

  Intro to Avid Editing

  and Elements of Film Art.\nWorkshops taught: documentary

  animation

  and narrative filmmaking.

  Adjunct Professor

  Watkins College of Art

  Design & Film

  Valencia

  CA

  Assisting professors and visiting artists with instructional responsibilities.

  Teaching Assistant

  California Institute of the Arts

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  I wear many hats

  but I most enjoy acting as a film curator

  selecting films to screen in various constellations for the festival and related programs. Past screenings have happened in the Blue Room of Third Man Records and the 1966 Hall of the historic Belcourt Theatre.

  Co-Founder & Artistic Director

  Far Out Film Fest

  Boston

  MA

  Emmy-nominated Avid editor for the first four seasons of the wildly popular PBS reality-kids show

  Fetch with Ruff Ruffman. Also worked in the Post department for NOVA

  Antiques Roadshow

  Masterpiece Theater

  Basic Black

  and One on One with María Hinojosa.

  video editor

  WGBH

  Editor for the History Channel's series

  Tougher In Alaska.

  video editor

  Greater Boston Area

  Moore Huntley Productions