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Mike Ratel
Washington, DC
Filmmaker
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Tags: Health and Healthcare Issues  sports  
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Title/Occupation:  Director  Producer 
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Gender: Male

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I am producing and directing my first documentary which is on the sport of lawn mower racing.

Biography: 

Started toying with super 8 cameras in the 1990's shooting rock bands and footage from travels.
Played a principal role in Pat DiNizio's King Leisure S.O.B. and wrote the raps for the main character who went from being a lost and forgotten middle aged former rock star to America's voice for the common man via hip hop.
I began production of On Your Mark, Get Set, MOW! in 2007. While filming a lawn mower race in Michigan I discovered how a family who have lost six members to Huntington's disease use the sport to raise research funds and awareness of the disease. In order to provide an understanding of HD I have interviewed two US congressmen who spoke on the HD bill before the house, a number of leading medical professionals, as well as Arlo Guthrie who lost his father folk legend Woody Guthrie to the disease in 1967.