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Martina Radwan

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Title/Occupation:  Cinematographer 

Gender: Female

Citizenship: German

Languages Spoken: English, German, French

Biography: Martina Radwan started in her native Germany in the film industry in 1987 as a Camera Technician at ARRI, Berlin. In 1988 she began to work in production as Assistant Camera, for DP’s like Robby Mueller and directors like Wim Wenders and Albert Maysles. In 1995 she moved to New York where she attended the film program at NYU. Since then she shoot numerous award-winning features and documentaries, which played in theaters, festivals, on PBS, Sundance Channel and HBO and international TV stations. Martina Radwan easily switches between feature & documentary, using narrative elements of story telling in her documentary work and vice versa. Her documentary work is often politically motivated, her clients include The Documentary Campaign, Larry Konner; Chimpanzee Films, Thomas Allan Harris; and Off Center Productions, Emily & Sarah Kuenstler. FERRY TALES, a documentary she shot, got nominated for the 76th Academy Award in 2004. Her feature work includes FLANNEL PAJAMAS, directed by Jeff Lipsky, KILLING Floor, by Gideon Raff, executive producer Doug Liman and Avi Arad, RAIN, the first indigenous film of the Bahamas, directed by Maria Govern, as well as TRAIN, also by Gideon Raff and produced by Millennium Films. In 2003, Inspired by the political development in the US she felt compelled to make her own film. She produced, directed SPRING IN AWE, a short film. The film was shown in international & national festivals and was rewarded with the Media Awareness Award at the Media That Matters Film Festival, 2004 and Best Editing, Brooklyn International Film Festival, 2004. It was also part of PBS as part of Reel New York/ Channel Thirteen in 2004. Her 2nd film ALIENS AMONG US, a 25 minute documentary about the consequences of Special Registration, a program implemented in response to 9/11m, which targeted people based on their origin, not on their action. The film was part of DocuWeek 2009.