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Mateen Kemet on FOX's "On the Lot" |
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Mateen Kemet currently works as a teacher. Mateen Kemet is from Bronx, New York and currently lives in Oakland, California. Mateen Kemet is 41 years old.
Mateen Kemet says, "I was born and raised in the Bronx, primarily on East Tremont and Boston Road, and before that on 174th & Longfellow near Bronx River - The home of hip hop. I went to Lehman High and then to Westchester Community College. At that time, my main focus was as far from film as it could be: I majored in Accounting and I was, more importantly, a jock-football, a hard hitting defensive back, to be exact. Football was my world, my love, and passion. I left New York for the sunny skies of Cali back in the mid 80's and began my ascension to manhood through my time as an undergraduate at San Francisco State University, while majoring in Economics and minor in Black Studies. Basically, back then, if I wasn't going to the NFL then I wanted to be the Black Donald Trump. Once I graduated, I returned to New York to work for the investment banking firm Sandler O'Neil & Partners where, in many ways, I learned my work ethic; as up 'til then success had come pretty easily to me. At Sandler, under the tutelage of trader and partner Jimmy Dunne (think Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko), I developed the mind set for business and a killer instinct that has stayed with me ever since (Unfortunately, Herman Sandler, the genius and namesake of the firm, was killed in the 911 attacks.) I then bounced around the Wall Street life for a few more years until 1995. At that point, my best friend died and I decided that the corporate cog highway was not for me. I left investment banking and began to work with children. This was supposed to be temporary. However, it wound up being a 10 year career--teaching mostly wayward teens in the hoods of San Francisco and Long Beach, California. During this stretch, I worked toward becoming a filmmaker, returning to school --Chapman University-- graduating with a MFA in film production in 2003. That path has led me here. "
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