Eddie Martinez
Director of To Be Heard
Eddie Martinez is a Bronx-born filmmaker who recently completed his first feature documentary To Be Heard, winner of both the Metropolis Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the DOC NYC film festival. As a cinematographer he has worked on several feature-length fiction and documentary films including Rachel Is, Leave No Soldier, Las Marthas (in production) and What Alice Found (winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance). After graduating from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory as a Gates Millennium Scholar, he earned a Master's in Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has worked as an instructor in various youth media programs in Boston and New York City. Edwin is currently developing a new feature-length project while producing shorts for educational, government and non-profit organizations. He also likes to bake.
