Longer Biography

Minda Martin is a writer and director of personal documentaries and narrative films that explore the underpinnings and disparities of social class in America. Her films have won awards and screened at international that include Viennale, Punto de Vista, New York Video Festival, New York Museum of Modern Art, RedCat, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, MOSTRA, Athens International film/video festival, Frameline Lesbian and Gay film festival, and many more.

Her most recent film is a personal historical documentary that examines what it means to be constantly looking for opportunity in America. In "Free Land", she uses family history of homelessness and displacement to reveal how the search for free land has geographically and psychically uprooted people, created social inequalities, and left legacies of emptiness.

She received an MFA in Cinema from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Creative Writing and Classics from University of Arizona. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Communication at California State University, San Marcos.

 

 

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