Ray Martinez was born in Los Angeles, CA, but grew up in St.
Petersburg, FL. Ray joined the US Army in 1996 and began writing
screenplays while stationed in Germany. Ray created Instigator Studios
in 2005 while on an in-theater deployment to the highly volatile
war-zone of Iraq. It was here that his inspiration to shoot movies
"Guerrilla-style" was born. Having served his country for 10 years, Ray
left the U.S. Army, to pursue his passion of filmmaking.