Michael Maren
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Michael Maren spent his twenties and thirties as a foreign correspondent based in Africa, writing for The Village Voice, Newsweek, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, among others. His book, about his experiences in Somalia, The Road to Hell, was recently called "the seminal critique of foreign aid" by The New Yorker. He received awards from The National Press Club and the American Society of Journalists for his reporting from Somalia.
For the past decade, he's worked as a screenwriter, writing scripts for HBO, Sony Pictures, Phoenix, and working with actors such as Chris Tucker and Reese Witherspoon.
Maren's film based on his own original script, which he also produced, "A Short History of Decay", marks his directorial debut. Shooting was completed in Wilmington, North Carolina in October, and it is now in post-production. The film stars Bryan Greenberg, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Linda Lavin, Harris Yulin, Kathleen Rose Perkins and Benjamin King.