Audrey Martinez

French born, hailing from the island of New Caledonia, tiny spec of the South Pacific, Audrey roams the world growing up, as a result of her parents' work, and moves to Florida at the age of 9 where she learned English. She returned to New Caledonia in 1994 to finish high school and earn her baccalaureate degree. Following a year of study at Macquarie University in Sydney, Audrey's eagerness to return to the States pushed her to enroll as as a Journalism major at the University of Hawaii. There, she kicked off her professional writing career by working for the college daily newspaper, the Ka Leo O' Hawai'i, regularly publishing feature stories. An avid fan of movies, Audrey quickly tied this inclination in with her writing and founded Ka Leo's movie beat, dedicated to film reviews and coverage of all films shooting on the islands. Worthy of note are her front-page stories on the Pearl Harbor movie press conference where she interviewed Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, and on her visit to the World War II set of John Woo's Windtalkers. While in college Audrey followed training courses in screenwriting and collaborates as a writer on numerous student short films and creative video pieces, as a member of SVFA (The Student Video and Filmmaker's Association.) After graduation Audrey's academic background led her to on-camera hosting work. As a TV host for Ocean Drive Magazine in Los Angeles and Miami, she interviewed numerous celebrities on the red carpet, including Gloria Estefan, Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, Alicia Silverstone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tico Torres of Bon Jovi fame, and Larry King, scripting her own original content for interviews. Fervently interested in acting, Audrey relocated to New York in 2005 to train at the renowned Terry Schreiber Studio - alumni of the school include Ed Norton and Mary-Louise Parker. She landed roles in numerous projects including a pilot for VH1, several short films, commercials and music videos, and an independent feature starring Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Sisto. She continued to write and completed two feature screenplays and one short script "And Boys Will Never Know," which she directed and produced with Boston-based B-Roll Films. Determined to bring her written works to the screen, in 2008 Audrey moved to Los Angeles to launch her own production company, Crushplay Productions. Audrey just wrapped production on the short film "The Perfect Shot," (2009) which she wrote and starred in, and is being submitted to festivals worldwide. She is also developing two feature films to be shot in 2010, a French coming-of-age comedy about students at the University of Hawaii, and an English-language romance inspired by "The Perfect Shot." Audrey speaks fluent French, Spanish and English with no accent.