BIO
Magee was born in Canada and grew up between East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia) and Washington DC.
Attending high school in DC, Magee won a grant to film his a political documentary on the tiny kingdom of Swaziland in Southern Africa. Successfully interviewing not only the head of the opposition parties in this small but politically fragile country, but also the King himself, later voted as among multiple publications as one of the top 20 worst dictators in the world, who has become increasingly controversial. This film was Magee's first and it set him on a path of political and cultural exploration throughout the world with film as his medium.
Since then, Magee has increasingly focused his work on international politics and the use of music, particularly hip hop music, as a political tool.
In college he produced a documentary entitled 'Getting' A Bad Rap: Conversations about hip hop from NYC to CT' and his senior thesis film entitled "Nyama: the Modern Manifestation of Griot Culture and Tradition in the US Through Hip Hop,' a film exploring the links of west African griot culture to modern American hip hop as we know it. In the past year, Magee co-founded Sol Productions, a non profit film production company, and, together with his two other film partners, has filmed the Presidential Elections in Venezuela, Senegal, and France.
He also co-founded, together with Nomadic Wax and Trinity College, the first ever International Hip Hop Festival and Conference of its size in the US, and is currently working on a film about this groundbreaking event.
Today, Magee is busy working on three political documentaries: one on President Hugo Chavez's recent re-election in Venezuela, one on hip hop's role in the recent and highly controversial Senegalese presidential elections, and one on African immigrants during the recent French presidential elections.
Magee est né au Canada et a grandi entre l'Afrique de l'Est (Kenya, Tanzanie, Zambie) et Washington DC. Au lycée à Washington DC, Magee obtient une subvention pour filmer son premier documentaire politique dans le petit royaume du Swaziland en Afrique australe. Ayant obtenu une interview avec les chefs de partis de l'opposition, il réussit aussi la prouesse de discuter avec le Roi lui même, reconnu plus tard par plusieurs sondages comme étant parmi les pires vingt dictateurs du monde. Ce dernier a été de plus en plus critiqué. Ainsi ce film, premier de sa nouvelle carrière lui a permis d'explorer le monde politico culturel et fut en même temps pour lui un moyen d'expression. Depuis lors, il a accentué son travail sur la politique internationale et l'utilisation de la musique, particulièrement le Hip Hop comme un moyen politique. A l'université, il a réalise un documentaire intitulé "Getting" A Bad Rap: discussion à propos de l'expansion du Hip Hop de New york à Connecticut aussi, il a fait un mémoire de maîtrise en film intitulé Nyama: la manifestation moderne de la tradition et de la culture des griots aux usa à travers le Hip Hop ; un film relatant la relation entre la culture des griots de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et le Hip Hop moderne américain. Dans le passé, il participa à la création de Sol Production, une compagnie de production de film à but non lucratif et avec l'aide de deux partenaires il a filmé les élections présidentielles au Venezuela au Sénégal et en France. Magee créa avec Nomadic Wax, le premier festival et Conférence international sur le Hip Hop d'une telle envergure à Trinity College (Hartford Connecticut)