Edwin Martinez

Director/Editor/Directory of Photography

Edwin Martinez graduated with honors from the SUNY Purchase Film Program and has continued the cinematography career he began at school. He has shot numerous films including the award winning independent feature film What Alice Found selected by several film festivals including the Tribeca and the Sundance Film Festivals, where it won a special jury award. In 2003, he received a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Gates Millennium Scholar.

Edwin works as a cinematographer and educator integrating his passions by creating and promoting social awareness and societal improvement through films, video and education. Currently Edwin teaches is a partner at Gotham Digital, a video company developing new HD production workflows.

He is also working on various film projects including Eyes Open, The Fourth Purpose: a documentary exposing inadequacies in the American education system, Rachel Is: a feature length documentary about a mentally retarded woman’s struggle to become independent and To Be Heard: a feature documentary following the lives and struggles of a group of teenage Bronx poets.

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David A. Ford

DP/Producer

David A. Ford is an accomplished Director of Photography whose work on documentary films, narrative features, and commercials has appeared on PBS, HBO, LOGO, national cable outlets, and film festivals nationwide. His credits include three Emmy Award winning documentaries including Ric Burns’ Eugene O’Neill and New York: A Documentary Film as well as Florentine Films’ Divided Highways. As a producer/director his work has appeared nationally on cable. His film Giddy Up! On the Rodeo Circuit appeared on MTV’s channel LOGO. He shot and produced Happenstance, winner of the 2007 HBO Shout! competition. In 2008, he shot the Emmy award winning The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale, which aired on HBO. He is a successful signed Producer/Director with Image Bank, the largest stock footage supplier in the world.

As an educator he has been a Senior Advisor and Cinematography Professor at SUNY Purchase and an Adjunct Professor of Cinematography in the Columbia University Graduate Film Department. He founded and runs the Digital Workshop, where students are trained in the art and craft of the digital cinematography and the production process.

He is currently working on a documentary following renown choreographer, Ellis Woods, and her professional dance troupe as they work with non-dancers at the LGBT Community Center in lower Manhattan. David specializes in directing & producing multi-camera HD shoots.

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