Directory Profile

Martina Lee is an award-winning writer/director who pursued her passion for film in 2013 and attended New York University Tisch Asia in Singapore. It was there that she began her journey to find her artistic voice. She moved to Los Angeles in 2015 to attend the University of Southern California. While developing her craft at USC, they awarded her the prestigious Annenberg Fellowship in 2016 and again in 2017. Her award-winning film Blueberry starring Evan Alex from Jordan Peele’s US made it into several festivals, including the American Black Film Festival and Blackstar Film Festival. It also aired on both domestic and international broadcasting channels. After school, she worked as a creative coordinator for White Horse Pictures. She worked on the Emmy Winning documentary film, The Apollo, directed by Roger Ross Williams, and Pavoratti, directed by Ron Howard. I accepted her as a directing fellow for the 2019 Project Involve Film Independent and was awarded the Amazon Studios Fellowship. She directed her next short Black Boy Joy starring William Catlett (from Love is.. And Black Lightning) and Evan Alex through that program. The film has gotten into over a dozen film festivals and is a finalist for the 2020 ABFF HBO Short Film Competition. It won best short at the Martha Vinyard Black Film Festival and Lionsgate / STARZ Short Film Award Winner at the Blackstar Film Festival. It also won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for best short narrative. It is now streaming on HBO. She was a 2020 Woman in Film Insight Fellow. She is currently developing a TV show with Slippery Moon Productions and Warner Bros. while working as an associate producer on ALL RISE season 3 where she got to direct her first episodic tv show going to air later this year.