Biography

Minda Martin is an experienced Director, Editor, and Producer of documentary and narrative films. Her films include: Mother's Heritage, (Video, 11min) a short collection of family portraits that build to a devastating revelation. A Little Ballad (16mm, 7.5min) portrays the different perspectives between a mother and her daughter who share escapism with the radio. The mother, who sits at the kitchen table enjoying her beer, uses the radio as a way to remember her past. The daughter, who dances in her room looking at images of people and landscapes, uses the radio to dream about her future. AKA Kathe (Video, 55min) is a moving portrait of a Mexican-American family from Tucson confronting a violent loss. This intense documentary portrays the life of a drug-addicted street prostitute and the repeating cycle of violence towards women. Do You Know...(16mm, 15min) An autobiographical montage, which the director, her ex-lovers, and a Clairvoyant recount unrequited love, abandonment, fear and the discovery of self through the urgency to sing. Love, Minda (Super8mm, 3min) Battling that old cliché, "lovers can't be friends," Love, Minda uses the form of an email to detail the obsessive mind of a woman who is trying to let go of her attachment to an old lover while maintaining a friendship. Monsoon St., '77 (16mm, 12.38) a wildly imaginative tomboy escapes the life created by a distracted mother in an experimental and visually eccentric look at addiction and creativity.

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