I thought I'd put up some of my resume and reel for those who are interested in this sort of thing.
Here's my Resume:
Clips from various films
Here's my Resume:
Richard
Martini
Film
Flipside: A Tourist’s Guide on How to Navigate the
Afterlife. Wrote, Directed, Produced
Documentary based on the book (2013) Distributed by Gaiam TV.
Earhart’s Electra – Eyewitness Reports of what happened to Amelia Earhart’s plane.
Documentary (2012) Wrote, Directed and Produced this documentary available at
Amazon.
Someone to Call My Own – A ten year look at a musical love story. Wrote,
Produced and Directed this Documentary available at Amazon.com (2011)
Salt - 2010
- Creative consultant, curated content, created flashback sequences, Associate
to Mr. Noyce. Sony. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schrieber. Phillip Noyce directed
thriller.
Amelia -
2009 - Curated content, Researcher. Fox 2000. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere. The
aviatrix's journey from 1928-1937.
My Bollywood Bride – 2006 – Co-Writer, Associate Producer. DreamTeam Pictures. Jason
Lewis, Kashmira Shah, Sanjay Suri, Golshen Grover. Hollywood meets Bollywood in
a romantic comedy.
The DeMedicis – 2004 – Writer. HBO developed this mini-series with Tony To Producing
(Band of Brothers, The Pacific).
Cowboy Up -
Second Unit Dir. DGA 2000 Xavier Koller, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah.
Orchid Prods. Championship Bull Riding.
Camera – Dogme #15 – Director, Writer. Odyssey Pictures Prod. 2001 Carol Alt, Angie
Everhart, Rebecca Broussard. Designated Dogme #15 by the Danish film group.
Cannes Man
(film) - Director, Co-Writer, Music. Rocket Pictures. 1997. Tom Coleman Prod.
Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn. Guest appearances by Johnny Depp, John Malkovich.
(“Hilarious” Hollywood Rep. “Fast, furious, fun satire” NY Post)
Point of Betrayal - Director, Music. Trident/Dove International. 1996. Jonathan Krane
Prod. Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill, Rebecca Broussard. Paramount Home Video (Rod
Lurie - Buzz Magazine; “a terrific film” )
Limit Up -
Writer/Director. MCEG. 1989 Jonathan Krane Prod. Nancy Allen, Dean Stockwell,
Ray Charles. (Ent. Weekly - “Splendid, delightful, with good cast, good script,
tidy direction.”)
You Can’t Hurry Love - Writer/Director. Vestron 1988 J.D. Krane Prod. Bridget Fonda,
Charles Grodin. (`Three stars’ Chicago Sun Times.)
Three for the Road - Co-Writer, Story. Vista 1987 Charlie Sheen, Kerri Green. (“A jolly
good time” NY Post “Charming” Newsday)
My Champion - Writer. Chris Mitchum, Yoko Shimada.
Directed by Gwen Arner.
Documentaries
Journey into Tibet - Director. Producer Tibet House NY. Trip around Mt. Kailash (2006)
Sister Cities
– “White City Windy City” Pilot. Director.
Layalina Productions. Chicago and Casablanca. (2005)
Tibetan Refugee
– Director, Producer Story of 50 new arrivals in Dharamsala. (2001)
Articles
“Inside the Idol Machine” USA
Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-04-25-idol-show-visit_x.htm
For further info, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Martini
Bio
Richard Martini
is an award-winning American film director, producer, screenwriter and freelance
journalist. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a degree
in Humanities, attended USC Film School and has a Masters from USC (2008) the
Professional Writing Program. He took improv classes at Second City in Chicago under Jo Forsberg, and with the Harvey Lembeck Workshop in L.A., and
has taught filmmaking at “The Workshops,” in Maine, the Loyola Rome Center, and
Loyola Marymount University’s school of Film and Television in Los Angeles.
Martini grew up in
Northbrook, Illinois. His first documentary film "Special Olympians"
won the 1980 Mexico City International Film Festival. He then made his feature
film directorial debut with the “quintessential 80’s comedy” (TNT) "You Can't Hurry Love," which
featured the debut of Bridget Fonda. Martini was a Humanities Major at Boston
University, attended USC Film School. His student short film "Lost Angels”
was the film debut of fellow Chicago native Daryl Hannah.
Martini left USC to work for
writer/director Robert Towne ("Chinatown," “Mission Impossible” 4] wound
up as an acting coach for Robert Evans on the original “The Two Jakes.” Martini
wrote his first feature “My Champion”
which starred Christopher (son of Robert) Mitchum and Yoko Shimada (Shogun). He
wrote the Charlie Sheen comedy “Three
For the Road” for Vista Films.
Martini directed a comedy
short “Video Valentino” shot by fellow USC alum John Schwartzman (DP of “The
Amazing Spider-Man”) and was produced by Jonathan D. Krane. The short led to a
deal with Vestron Pictures, where he made "You
Can’t Hurry Love" starring Bridget Fonda, Charles Grodin and Kristy
McNichol based on the short.
Martini then co-wrote and
directed two films for Producer Jonathan D. Krane ("Look Who's
Talking", "Face/Off"): Chicago-set Faustian comedy “Limit Up," starring Nancy Allen
and blues icon Ray Charles, and "Point
of Betrayal," (Winner “Best Film” at the Palm Beach International Film
Fest 1996) starring Dina Merrill, Rod Taylor and Rebecca Broussard.
Martini then co-wrote and directed "Cannes Man" (released in 2010 on itunes.com) starring Francesco Quinn and Seymour Cassel, with appearances by Johnny Depp and the "cast of characters who inhabit the film festival each year." Martini also wrote and directed the Dogme 95 film "Camera – Dogme #15," (second US film designated “Dogme95”) it follows the life of a video camera.
Martini then co-wrote and directed "Cannes Man" (released in 2010 on itunes.com) starring Francesco Quinn and Seymour Cassel, with appearances by Johnny Depp and the "cast of characters who inhabit the film festival each year." Martini also wrote and directed the Dogme 95 film "Camera – Dogme #15," (second US film designated “Dogme95”) it follows the life of a video camera.
He's also directed
documentaries; "Tibetan
Refugee" explores the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, "White City/Windy City"
explores the relationship between Chicago and Casablanca in the Eisenhower
"Sister Cities" program, and "Journey
Into Tibet", follows Buddhist scholar and author Robert Thurman on a
sacred journey around Mt. Kailash in Western Tibet.
He co-wrote and produced “My Bollywood Bride” starring Jason
Lewis and Sanjay Suri (released as "My Faraway Bride.") Among
Martini’s television credits include producing segments and appearing on the
award-winning “Charles Grodin Show”
on CNBC and writing an upcoming miniseries for HBO about the notorious House
of Medici.
He worked on the films "Amelia" and "Salt"
as a digital media curator, pioneering a method of previsualizing a film
online, film director Phillip Noyce hired him to work on both films.
He wrote the bestselling book
(#1 at Amazon in all its genres twice) "Flipside:
A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife" and the documentary
based on the book was picked up by Gaiam TV for distribution in 2014. His
follow up books “It’s a Wonderful
Afterlife: Further Adventures In the Flipside” vols 1 and 2 have also been
#1 in their Kindle genres. Martini was featured on George Noory’s “Coast to
Coast” #1 radio program four times, and also appeared as a guest on Noory’s
Gaiam TV in 2014.
Filmography
·
Flipside:
A Journey into the Afterlife - 2013 - Writer, Director, Producer. Amazon. A documentary
that explores the work of Michael Newton with interviews of hypnotherapists,
footage of past life regressions and life between life sessions.
·
Salt - 2010 - Curated content, digital flashback
sequences, Associate to Mr. Noyce. Sony. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schrieber.
Phillip Noyce directed thriller.
·
Amelia (film) - 2009 - Curated content,
Researcher. Fox 2000. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere. The aviator's journey from
1928-1937.
·
My Bollywood Bride – 2006 – Co-Writer, Associate
Producer. DreamTeam Pictures. Jason Lewis, Kashmira Shah, Sanjay Suri, Golshen
Grover. Hollywood meets Bollywood in a romantic comedy.
·
Cowboy
Up - Second Unit
Dir. 2000 Xavier Koller, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah. Orchid Prods.
Championship Bull Riding.
·
Camera
– Dogme #15 – Director,
Writer. Odyssey Pictures Prod. 2001 Carol Alt, Angie Everhart, Rebecca Broussard. Designated Dogme #15 by the
Danish film group.
·
Cannes Man (film) - Director, Co-Writer, Music.
Rocket Pictures. 1997. Tom Coleman Prod. Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn. Guest
appearances by Johnny Depp, John Malkovich. (“Hilarious” Hollywood Rep. “Fast,
furious, fun satire” NY Post)
·
Point
of Betrayal - Director,
Music. Trident/Dove International. 1996. Jonathan Krane Prod. Rod Taylor, Dina
Merrill, Rebecca Broussard. Paramount Home Video (Rod Lurie - Buzz Magazine; “a
terrific film” – won Best Picture at the Palm Beach Intl Film Festival 1996.
·
Limit Up - Writer/Director. MCEG. 1989 Jonathan Krane Prod.
Nancy Allen, Dean Stockwell, Ray Charles. (Ent. Weekly - “Splendid, delightful,
with good cast, good script, tidy direction.”)
·
You Can’t Hurry
Love -
Writer/Director. Vestron 1988 J.D. Krane Prod. Bridget Fonda, Charles Grodin.
(`Three stars’ Chicago Sun Times.)
·
Three for the Road - Co-Writer, Story. Vista 1987 Charlie
Sheen, Kerri Green. (“A jolly good time” NY Post “Charming” Newsday)
Clips from various films
