When up-and-coming cartoonist Keef Knight has a traumatic run-in with the police, he begins to see the world in an entirely new way. Marable does a wink and nod toward the Atlanta connection in the first episode by namedropping Stacey Abrams and Killer Mike attending a protest held at a park, which is actually Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta. Metro Atlanta is about 33% Black and 7% Asian. San Francisco is 34% Asian while the Black population is about 5%. Vancouver, which is about 48% Asian, is only 1% Black. “But the challenge I had there was no diversity.” “Vancouver was a great location for us,” he said. Three of the four lead characters on “Woke” are Black and many of the writers and producers are Black. Marable pushed for the move because he found Atlanta more reflective of American diversity. Hopefully, people will feel like they’re in San Francisco.” It was a challenge, brother, a real challenge. “We were very judicious about where we shot,” Marable said. The city, Marable admits, is not so ideal given its relatively flat terrain and lack of ocean access. But season two was shot in metro Atlanta. Season one was shot in Vancouver, which hugs the ocean and has enough hilly terrain to masquerade as San Francisco. Marable is an executive producer and director. The trauma triggers his “wokeness” enabling inanimate objects like beer cans, a garbage can and his marker to talk to him about social injustice. “Woke” stars Lamorne Morris as Keef, a Black San Francisco-based cartoonist on the verge of mainstream success who in season one gets roughed up by the police after being mistaken for a robber. The buzz from that video led to calls for him to direct all sorts of shows, from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “Insecure” to episodes of “Veep.” It featured cameos from Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi. In 2014, he shot a seven-minute comedic short film featuring “Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus and actual vice president Joe Biden for the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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He spent years as creative director at HBO producing promos for TV shows like “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City.” He later directed commercials but would help out HBO whenever they asked. He dropped out of GSU and was soon traveling the world shooting music videos with Michael Jackson as a production supervisor. I went from talking about Spike Lee in class to working with him in the edit room.” I then became a production assistant for post production. “They asked me to drive a truck to New York to drop off stuff. “Producers took a liking to me,” he said. He begged to become a production assistant but instead became an intern. There, he heard that Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee was executive producing a 1994 film “Drop Squad,” which was shot in part in Atlanta. Marable’s film career started when he was attending Georgia State University in the early 1990s.
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