Robert Daniel Martin

Robert Daniel Martin is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer who completed his Master's degree in Directing and Screenwriting in Film and Television at the renowned graduate film school of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. During the program, Robert ventured around the world on productions in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. Inspired by grand sweeping epics and adventure films, Robert explored the ancient rice terraces of the Philippines by directing the foreign language film, The Banaue Boy. Directed in a UNESCO World Heritage Site even further north than the final sequence shot in Apocalypse Now, the narrative short received the most accumulative awards at the 2015 NYU First Run Festival for Best Actor, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, and Editor. For his final thesis short film, Robert reconnected with his roots as a Minnesota native to direct State of the Game. Based on a number of harrowing true events in the world of competitive youth hockey exposed around his hometown, the genre-bending story contained elements of suspense, drama, sports, and action and received several awards and support prior to the start of production. It won the Hollywood Screenplay Contest for Best Short Screenplay, the Dennis Riese Production Grant, and free legal counsel and production prep by Jay Gendron (former executive in legal affairs at Warner Bros.), entertainment lawyer and head of the Southwestern Entertainment Law School Legal Clinic for emerging filmmakers. Currently, Robert is developing North Star, a feature film surrounding the period of his life when he lived abroad in Singapore and trained as a mixed martial artist.