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Minda Martin. My filmmaking practice is grounded in feminist praxis and archival/historical storytelling. Over the past twenty-five years I have been deepening my creative practice, which explores the structures that have shaped the lives of Americans at the margins who live here.
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written, filmed, edited, and directed by Minda J. Martin. In...
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SemiFinalist ScreenCraft Film Fund 2023. Recommended on The...
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Minda Martin has been making personal narrative and documentary films since the early 1990s. Her breakout film was Mother's Heritage (1995) where she took to the camera as a political act to represent the kinds of people she grew up with, working poor white families in the American southwest.
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written, filmed, edited, and directed by Minda J. Martin. In this documentary, I focused on the murder of a childhood acquaintance in my hometown Tucson, Arizona and the conflicting challenges she faced in her life as a sex worker, mother and someone battling a debilitating drug habit and poverty.
Minda Martin has been making personal narrative and documentary films since the early 1990s. Her breakout film was Mother's Heritage (1995) where she took to the camera as a political act to represent the kinds of people she grew up with, working poor white families in the American southwest.
Minda Martin directs personal documentaries and narrative films that explore the underpinnings and disparities of social class in America. Her films, including a.k.a. Kathe and Monsoon St., ’77, have won awards and screened internationally that include Viennale, Punto de Vista, New York Video Festival, MoMA, RedCat, LA Museum of Contemporary ...
SemiFinalist ScreenCraft Film Fund 2023. Recommended on The Black List 2024. Status: Late development stage. SCREENPLAYS. I returned to screenwriting three years ago and wrote TAKE ME THERE (formerly titled DIRTY WATER) in 2021. I love the craft of creating worlds through screenwriting.
Minda Martin. Professor. MFA, Department of Live Action in the School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts. B.A., Interdisciplinary Arts (Creative Writing, Media Arts, Classics), University of Arizona. Office: UW2-318. Phone: 425-352-3412. Email: mindam@uw.edu. Mailing Box: 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246. Teaching.
