Marvin Glover is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, and
music composer. Raised primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Marvin now
resides in Los Angeles. Many of his artistic works center around themes
of hope and empowerment. He has branched out into mainstream territory
with recent Sci-Fi and comedy films.
Glover was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Thelma Todd-Glover, a
elementary school teacher, and Leon Glover, a Air Force Sergeant, and
construction worker. He attended Washington State University,
University of Washington and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Glover
also received a scholarship to the ScreenwritingU program. The program
was designed to take students directly into the Hollywood system as
proficient writers.
Unlike the other standard programs for screenwriting, film production,
or the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing and critical studies
programs, The ScreenwritingU program was designed to teach a select
group of students how to be authors of their visions. Glover puts a lot
of time into his writing. However, his ability to direct was correlated
to an early beginning in music videos, which began with producing and
directing music videos to his own catalog of music and has expanded to
other artist and bands.