Mario Tahi Lathan

Director: The Lesser of 2 Evils

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mario Tahi Lathan holds an MFA in Film degree from Howard University. As a producer and editor, Mario has worked in narrative and documentary programming for major networks ranging from PBS, TNT, Travel, BET, ESPN, CNN, and El Rey, including the Emmy Award-winning series nthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Mario has released several jazz documentaries: VICTORY!, starring saxophonist JD Allen (Best Short Form Video by the Jazz Journalists Association,2012); Jaimeo Brown's Transcendence (2014);; and This Is The Bash (2019). Mario also served as a producer on the Emmy-nominated film Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street (CNN) and the limited series Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture for E! and NBC.