MARVIN. 

Marvin Lemus is an award-winning director, co-creator, co-showrunner, and executive producer of Netflix’s hit series, GENTEFIED. The half-hour series was adapted from the digital series directed by Lemus, produced by MACRO Studios and America Ferrera after premiering at the 2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. Having directed the first two episodes of GENTEFIED, the first season went on to be nominated for a prestigious PEABODY AWARD and three Imagen Foundation Awards, including Best Comedy Series. Gentefied was listed as one of the 10 Best TV Shows of 2020 by the LA Times. Additionally, Hollywood Reporter listed “THE GRAPEVINE”, written by Lemus, as one of TV Critics Top 10 Episodes of 2020. Lemus was named a Director to watch by Robert Rodriguez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Zoe Saldana as part of their LATINXT LIST in 2019 and 2020. He is an alum of the Sony Diverse Director's Program, Disney/ABC Directors Fellowship, and Film Independent’s Project: Involve. Currently, Lemus is showrunning season two of GENTEFIED and is preparing to direct his first feature film.

Lemus' career started after directing his undergraduate thesis film. It was terrible and incredibly unfunny. Determined to learn how to “guarantee a laugh”, Lemus adopted the "Robert Rodriguez Method" of filmmaking and obsessively wrote, produced, directed, edited, and sometimes acted in close to 200 productions. During that time, Lemus studied at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre which is where he met the other founding members of the award-winning sketch group, THE KIDS TABLE (TKT). Lemus was a performer, producer, director, and editor of TKT. Over the course of three years, TKT's social satire and topical parodies garnered over 1 million views and was frequently featured on Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Buzzfeed, and Funny or Die to name a few. They even won a free trip to Switzerland once to receive an award for a video he shot in his living room with 50 bucks. Best ROI ever. 

Lemus’ success with low-budget videos quickly led to rent-paying work in digital comedy led to working with rising comedy stars including Tessa Thompson, Olivia Munn, and Lil’ Rel Howery. Lemus also directed successful viral videos for brands such as Vogue, Anheuser-Busch, Nissan, MLB, Time, and the wildly successful digital campaign for the feature film, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, which received over 8 million views.

Lemus is a Film Independent Project Involve Alumni, but only after applying six years in a row. It was as a Project Involve Fellow that he was able to direct the short film, VÁMONOS. Vámonos went on to screen internationally in over 40 film festivals and won awards at NBCUniversal Short Film Festival, Frameline40, and a prestigious Imagen Award.

Lemus is a Mexican + Guatemalan-American anchor-baby born in the hot AF desert of Bakersfield, CA.