Michael Premo is an artist, journalist, and filmmaker. His work spans film, radio, theater, installation and photography. His documentary Homegrown, will have its World Premiere in Venice Critics Week during the 2024 Venice Film Festival. The film is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other. He directed and produced the short film and photo exhibition Water Warriors (POV), about a community’s successful resistance to the oil and gas industry. He co-directed the participatory documentary Sandy Storyline (Jury Award winner at the Tribeca Film Festival), and co-created the site-specific performance Sanctuary (The Working Theater). Michael has directed, produced, and co-written original radio and theater with numerous companies including Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Foundry Theater, The Civilians, and the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps on NPR. His photography has appeared in publications like The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Het Parool. He has been an artist-in-residence with Camargo Foundation, The Laundromat Project and the National Resource Defense Council. He is the recipient of an NBC News Studios Original Voices Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, A Blade of Grass Artist Files Fellowship, and a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Award.

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