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Michael A. Martinez

  • Visual Effects
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Cinematographer
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Born into a military family, Michael A. Martinez partly grew up in Germany and Italy, developing a love of genre cinema (mainly war and science fiction films) from watching the local television and tapes his father collected from his world travels. After a few years in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Martinez's family settled in Fairbanks, Alaska where he and his friends started putting together short films for their high school classes, and then later outside of class just to keep themselves busy during the summer.

Martinez attended the University of Alaska where his father worked, often taking advantage of his access to the university's rocket launch facilities, and got his first television gig shooting rocket launches and retrieval. He went on to film school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he met fellow filmmaker and paranormal enthusiast Nick Groff. The two of them co-directed many student films culminating in the feature Malevolence (2004) which had a brief festival run in 2004. Martinez returned to Alaska and worked in local television for the next few years wearing many hats; marketing, copy-writing, editing, directing, shooting, producing, and compositing visual effects due to difficulty finding other people locally to fill those positions.

In 2008 he moved to Los Angeles and worked freelance in camera and visual effects for several years before becoming American Honda Motor Company's in-house video director from 2013-2018. In 2018, he relocated to Atlanta, GA to work full-time in visual effects and editing on studio films and TV but still works on smaller projects in his spare time.
BornOctober 4, 1980
BornOctober 4, 1980
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Known for

The Tony Blair Witch Project (2000)
The Tony Blair Witch Project
1.9
Video
  • Cinematographer(as Sergio Ferrando)
  • 2000
Chimera (2003)
Chimera
5.3
Short
  • Cinematographer(as Mike A. Martinez)
  • 2003
Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae in The Lovebirds (2020)
The Lovebirds
6.1
  • Visual Effects(as Michael Martinez)
  • 2020
Ryan Reynolds, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Dwayne Johnson, Eiza González, and Vanessa Kirby in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
6.5
  • Visual Effects
  • 2019

Credits

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Visual Effects

  • They Cloned Tyrone
    • Post-production
  • Reptile
    • Post-production
  • Bad Fish
    • Post-production
  • Gringa
    • Completed
  • The Beanie Bubble
    • Post-production
  • Abysmal
    • Post-production
  • Fantasy Football (2022)
    Fantasy Football
  • Danielle Deadwyler in Till (2022)
    Till
  • A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
    A Jazzman's Blues
  • Loose Change (2022)
    Loose Change
  • Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Dave Franco, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo in Day Shift (2022)
    Day Shift
    • (uncredited)
  • Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Viola Davis in The First Lady (2022)
    The First Lady
  • Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Diego Boneta, James J. Zito III, and Adria Arjona in Father of the Bride (2022)
    Father of the Bride
  • Brionne Davis, John Michael Elfers, Ryan Stevens Harris, Augie Duke, Morgana Ignis, and Haven Lee Harris in Moon Garden (2022)
    Moon Garden
  • Winona Ryder, Tom Wlaschiha, David Harbour, Brett Gelman, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, Natalia Dyer, Joseph Quinn, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Priah Ferguson, and Eduardo Franco in Stranger Things (2016)
    Stranger Things
    • ...
  • Protection Detail (2022)
    Protection Detail
  • Arcade Fire: Unconditional I
  • Ethan Hawke, F. Murray Abraham, Oscar Isaac, Antonia Salib, May Calamawy, Karim El Hakim, Saba Mubarak, and Sofia Danu in Moon Knight (2022)
    Moon Knight
    • (as Michael Martinez)
  • Elle Fanning in The Girl from Plainville (2022)
    The Girl from Plainville
  • The Wrong Tenant (2022)
    The Wrong Tenant
  • Jayden Enamorado in Lodo (2022)
    Lodo

Camera and Electrical Department

  • Spy vs Spy Boss (2023)
    Spy vs Spy Boss
  • The Wrong Tenant (2022)
    The Wrong Tenant
  • Aquarius Releasing: An Appreciation (2021)
    Aquarius Releasing: An Appreciation
  • For We Are Many (2019)
    For We Are Many
    • (segment The Damned Statue)
  • Mick McMains, Michael Tomlin III, and Alexa Briana Crismon in McMains: Since I Started Loving You (2019)
    McMains: Since I Started Loving You
  • 8 Years (2019)
    8 Years
  • Natasha Estrada in Frankly a Mess (2018)
    Frankly a Mess
  • Odds Are (2018)
    Odds Are
  • Mick McMains, Fabrizio Cavallaro, and Armin Schüch in McMains: Don't Say Goodnight Tonight (2017)
    McMains: Don't Say Goodnight Tonight
  • Paige Herschell in Yoga Pants Gone Wrong (2016)
    Yoga Pants Gone Wrong
  • Initiation (2016)
    Initiation
  • The Business of Amateurs (2016)
    The Business of Amateurs
  • Plastic Movies Rewound: The Story of the '80s Home Video Boom
  • Halestorm: Here's to Us (2013)
    Halestorm: Here's to Us
  • The Outsider - Il cinema di Antonio Margheriti (2013)
    The Outsider - Il cinema di Antonio Margheriti

Cinematographer

  • Roth I.R.Sue (2022)
    Roth I.R.Sue
  • The Wrong Tenant (2022)
    The Wrong Tenant
  • Building a Void: The Road to Death Collector
  • Aquarius Releasing: An Appreciation (2021)
    Aquarius Releasing: An Appreciation
  • Youthanasia (2021)
    Youthanasia
  • Mick McMains, Michael Tomlin III, and Alexa Briana Crismon in McMains: Since I Started Loving You (2019)
    McMains: Since I Started Loving You
  • Mick McMains, Fabrizio Cavallaro, and Armin Schüch in McMains: Don't Say Goodnight Tonight (2017)
    McMains: Don't Say Goodnight Tonight
  • Paige Herschell in Yoga Pants Gone Wrong (2016)
    Yoga Pants Gone Wrong
  • Plastic Movies Rewound: The Story of the '80s Home Video Boom
  • Feed Me
  • Official Best Of (2006)
    Official Best Of
  • Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012)
    Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
  • The Scarlet Worm (2011)
    The Scarlet Worm
  • Anica II: Enemy of the Region
  • Alaska's Scenic Byways: Bigger Than Your Imagination
    • (as Michael A. Martinez)
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Survive
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Survive
How to Survive
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How to Survive

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    • October 4, 1980
    • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Other works
    TV commercial for Computerwerks (2004)

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    Black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
    • Uses frequent obscure Italian & Japanese movie in-jokes and references in his films and commercials

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