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MICHAEL W. DEAN - Director
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Michael W. Dean directed the documentary films
D.I.Y.
Or Die: How To Survive as an Independent Artist and
Hubert
Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow (Narrated by Robert
Downey, Jr.) , and the art DVD Living
Through Steve Diet Goedde. Michael is the author of
the books $30
Film School, $30
Music School, $30
Writing School, Starving
in the Company of Beautiful Women, The Simple Pleasures
of a Complex Girl, and DIY NOW! Digital Audio.
Michael played guitar in the early 80s hardcore punk band band
The
Beef People. He sang and played bass in Baby Opaque and
Bomb (Warner Brothers).
He currently sings in the hardcore punk band Right
Arm of Wyoming.
His latest written work is the libertarian self-help/time
management book, A
User's Manual for the Human Experience.
Michael W. Dean was a featured director and speaker at the
2005 Deauville Film Festival in France, and has toured Europe
and America lecturing at colleges, museums and youth centers.
He was a featured speaker at the Podcast and New Media Expo.
Dean has been interviewed by NPR,
BBC radio, and featured on NBC, VH1,
and in Variety
Magazine.
Michael contributed to O'Reilly Media's Digital
Video Hacks book, edited O'Reilly's DV
Filmmaking: From Start to Finish by Ian Aronson,
and wrote "MAKE a Mailbox Movie" in MAKE Magazine
Volume 3. He co-authored (with Alan Lastufka) a book
for O'Reilly called YouTube:
An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts.
Michael stays up late, sleeps in late, and works at home
as a writer and filmmaker. In 2009, he moved from Los Angeles
to Casper, Wyoming "to get away from it all."
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