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.
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.

Right now I'm shooting and editing a documentary called To Be Heard about an amazing poetry class in the Bronx. The film should be coming out next year and after that, anything is possible.
           
Download Résume