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My name is Eddie Martinez. I am a Bronx-bred Puerto Rican. The product of public schools and long commutes, an English world and bilingual parents, and the ramblings of my own quiet universe. |
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| After slipping out of high school un-shot and relatively un-traumatized (depending on what scale you’re using) I studied film at the SUNY Purchase film program. While there I realized, through my alienation, that while talented there was much about the film world that was fundamentally foreign to me. However, I did happily shoot a lot of films at school and begin to realize my knack for cinematography and promise as a documentary filmmaker.
I graduated and worked on a bunch of movies. I shot one that went to Sundance (What Alice Found) which was pretty cool. I worked on another that later went to Tribeca but I still felt really unfulfilled by the singular trajectory of my post-film school life. I needed more. So a year after graduating, using my Gates Millennium Scholarship, I got my masters in education policy and theory at the Harvard Grad School of Education. Now I spend my time doing many things. I’m still a filmmaker I guess. I’ve been told I should own that distinction so I’m trying hard to. It helps that I’m currently working on 3 amazing feature length documentaries, my own short documentary and numerous side projects, which keep me profoundly busy. I've just finished a feature documentary called To Be Heard (about 3 teenage poets growing up in the Bronx) that is premiering at DOC NYC and should air on PBS next fall. |
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