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Martha Pinson is a filmmaker based in New York. The feature film she directed, "Tomorrow," recently won Best Narrative Feature at 3 USA festivals: SCAD Savannah, Napa Valley, and Seneca FF, NY. In 2011, she directed the short, "It's Not Saturday," for VisionFest'11's filmmaker challenge. It premiered at the Hoboken Film Festival in NJ. In 2010. She directed a 4-camera video of "The Man in Room 306,"off-Broadway production and ten short plays in dramatic readings at the Drama Bookshop, NY. In 2008-09, she wrote and directed the pilot episode for "Rescue Meal," about firehouse chefs. In 2006, she directed "King Alive," a short film in which Craig Edwards performs Martin Luther King excerpts. In 2005, she directed Sheila Evan's "Billie Holiday Cabaret" in Provincetown, MA, to a standing ovation. In 2002, she completed her award-winning short, "Don't Nobody Love the Game More than Me," which aired nationally on the PBS' "Independent Lens." It screened in over 20 festivals and was awarded Best Short by the Westchester and Toronto Online Festivals. In 1999-2000, she produced and directed Bob Rogers' 10-character comedy, "Small Potatoes," in its successful six-week Off Broadway run on Theater Row. In 1998, she directed "Acts of Faith" by Stephen E. Mantin at Chain Lightning in New York, to excellent reviews. She was a second unit director on "Just the Ticket," starring Andy Garcia. Martha has written numerous original and adapted screenplays, including "Body Count 1968" - an award winning coming-of-age drama, an adaptation of Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" and a stage adaptation of the same, "Climbing Ladders in the Moonlight." She adapted novelist Sonja Greenlee's novel of the Daytona Beach underworld in 1976, "The Last Resort." She and Ms. Greenlee also collaborated on the award-winning "The Loophole," a comedy about exotic dancers who perform Shakespeare. Martha has been directing consultant to Richard Wenk, Darren Starr, and Tom Cavanagh, and Script Supervisor for major directors including Martin Scorsese ("Hugo," "Boardwalk Empire" pilot, "Shutter Island," "The Departed," "The Aviator," "New York Stories," and more), Sidney Lumet ("Prince of the City," "Night Falls on Manhattan," "Daniel," "Deathtrap" and others), Milos Forman ("Ragtime"), Oliver Stone ("Wall Street"), Iain Softley, Andrew Niccol, and Brian De Palma.

A Most Violent Year ( 2014) | IMDb: 7

Crime , Drama , Thriller

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Starring:

Oscar Isaac , Jessica Chastain , David Oyelowo , Alessandro Nivola , Elyes Gabel , Albert Brooks

Directed by:

Jessica Lichtner , H.H. Cooper , Martha Pinson

Produced by:

Richard Mancuso , Joshua Blum , Jonathan King

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ( 2014) | IMDb: 6.2

Action , Drama , Thriller

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Starring:

Chris Pine , Keira Knightley , Kevin Costner , Kenneth Branagh , Lenn Kudrjawizki , Colm Feore

Directed by:

Zoe Morgan , Kenneth Branagh , Martha Pinson

Produced by:

Mace Neufeld , Alexander Dostal , Lucinda Syson

Hugo ( 2011) | IMDb: 7.5

Adventure , Drama , Family

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Starring:

Asa Butterfield , Ben Kingsley , Chloë Grace Moretz , Sacha Baron Cohen , Ray Winstone , Emily Mortimer

Directed by:

Martha Pinson , Martin Scorsese , Christopher Surgent

Produced by:

Ellen Lewis , Emma Tillinger Koskoff , Johnny Depp

Shutter Island ( 2010) | IMDb: 8.2

Drama , Mystery , Thriller

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Starring:

Leonardo DiCaprio , Mark Ruffalo , Ben Kingsley , Michelle Williams , Emily Mortimer , Patricia Clarkson

Directed by:

Amy Herman , Martin Scorsese , Freida Orange

Produced by:

Mike Medavoy , Martin Scorsese , Meghan Rafferty

The Departed ( 2006) | IMDb: 8.5

Crime , Drama , Thriller

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Starring:

Jack Nicholson , Leonardo DiCaprio , Matt Damon , Mark Wahlberg , Vera Farmiga , Martin Sheen

Directed by:

Martha Pinson , Martin Scorsese , G. A. Aguilar

Produced by:

Ellen Lewis , Brad Pitt , Carla Raij

The Aviator ( 2004) | IMDb: 7.5

Drama

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Starring:

Leonardo DiCaprio , Cate Blanchett , Kate Beckinsale , John C. Reilly , Alan Alda , Danny Huston

Directed by:

Fabrice Barrilliet , Geneviéve Duguay , Martin Scorsese

Produced by:

Kurt Leitner , Gino Falla , Bob Weinstein

Don't Say a Word ( 2001) | IMDb: 6.3

Mystery , Thriller

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

Starring:

Michael Douglas , Sean Bean , Brittany Murphy , Skye McCole Bartusiak , Guy Torry , Jennifer Esposito

Directed by:

Martha Pinson , Gary Fleder , Greg White

Produced by:

Andrew Klavan , Bruce Berman , Christopher Comrie

Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999) | IMDb: 6.8

Drama

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Starring:

Nicolas Cage , Patricia Arquette , John Goodman , Ving Rhames , Tom Sizemore , Marc Anthony

Directed by:

Martha Pinson , Martin Scorsese , Christopher Surgent

Produced by:

Lee Genick , Mark Roybal , Bruce Winant

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