Martin Aguilera

Martin Aguilera has been commissioned to write projects for a variety of independent film and TV producers, and served as story consultant for a handful of up-and-coming filmmakers on movies while in development for Blumhouse, Sony, and Paramount Pictures -- films which have gone on to earn a cumulative $324 million dollars at the global box office. In 1997, at the age of fifteen, his play "The Derelicts" was produced by the Fourth Wall Players -- for which he was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award at the 1998 Young Texas Playwright's Competition. His script "Miseducated" was one of the Top 3 winners for the 2009 Slamdance Telplay Competition. Martin had the distinction of having two spec TV pilots among the 40 finalists selected for the contest. In 2004 his screenplay "The Image Consultant" was accepted at the National Association of Latino Independent Producer's Writer's Lab in New York City, where he was the youngest writer to attend that year. "The Image Consultant" received accolades from lab participants and story analysts and went on to become a finalist for the 2005 Outfest Screenwriter's Lab. Film Independent's Project:Involve accepted Martin as a fellow for their 2006-2007 cycle. On their screenwriter track, he was mentored by Nicholl Fellowship recipient Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, The Vampire Diaries) and attended workshops with directors Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth), Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monster's Ball), James Mangold (Ford v. Ferrari, Logan), Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile), Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Devil in the White City), Doug Atchinson (Akeelah and the Bee), Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel, Billions), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), as well as actresses Elizabeth Peña, Virginia Madsen and Lisa Kudrow. Martin worked as a bookseller for Barnes & Noble, Inc. for six years before his transition to the Spanish-language TV network Azteca América. At Azteca América, Martin was executive assistant to Emmy-winning producer Flor Siqueiros and served as Associate Producer for two of their original series pilots, "Doctora Corazón" and "Cita Relámpago," which aired internationally in January 2008. Since 2017, Martin has been a contributing writer for the magazine "Famous Monsters of FIlmland," and an essay he wrote appears in "The Brokeback Book" (William Handley, ed.) from the University of Nebraska Press.