Martin began directing music videos for bands such as Pulp, Tindersticks, Aphex Twin and Biffy Clyro. As a director of factual television, he is an International Emmy and Royal Television Society North West award winner and BAFTA nominee. His feature debut as a writer-director, Small Creatures, was nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature and Best Performance 2012. In 2013 he directed The Big Melt, which opened Sheffield Doc Fest, complete with live music by 52 musicians. In 2014 it was broadcast in the BBC4 flagship documentary strand, Storyville. In 1999, he produced and directed, Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker for Channel4, travelling the globe to investigate extraordinary places built by otherwise ordinary people. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary about Ron Gittins.
Similar Posts
The Caravan Gallery
The Caravan Gallery is a collaboration between artists and photographers Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale, who use photography to document what they call the ‘reality and surreality’ of everyday life. Founded in the year 2000,…
Angela Samata
BAFTA nominee Angela Samata presented the award-winning BBC1 documentary Life After Suicide. She has worked in Suicide Prevention and the Arts for almost two decades, speaking internationally on both subjects. Angela sits on Tate Liverpool’s…
Alison Bailey Smith
Having spent the last sixteen years in Wirral making creative things happen, I am delighted to join the team to support Chris and Jan. I am a contemporary craftsperson, and recently become a tutor on…
Colin Simpson
Principal Museums Officer, Wirral Museums ServiceColin first came to Birkenhead as Keeper of Decorative Arts at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in 1980 and is now Wirral’s Principal Museums Officer, a post he has…
Annie Lord
I have over thirty years’ experience of working in museums. I started out as a Textile Conservator at the V&A, later moving to the National Museums Liverpool (NML). From 2004 I worked as Head of…
Bev Ayre
Bev is an independent creative producer and curator. She has worked extensively for Culture Liverpool delivering large scale events and arts programmes including the opening and closing ceremonies of the Vitality netball World Cup, the…