Darnell Martin
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Darnell Martin (born January 7, 1964) is a television and film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Early life and education
Martin was born in Bronx, New York, the granddaughter of Marilyn, a dancer of Irish-American descent, and an African-American attorney. She progressed to Sarah Lawrence College and New York University Film School after graduating from the Bronx. She worked in film labs and camera rental companies, as a bartender, produced music videos and short films, and wrote the first draft of I Like It Like That.
Career
At the New York Public Theater's Young Black Cinema retrospective in 1992, Martin's first short film, Suspect, which investigated young black people as presumed prisoners, received critical acclaim. Martin served as an assistant camera operator on Jonathan Demme's documentary Cousin Bobby about his cousin Robert Castle, an Episcopal pastor who works in Harlem, after directing Suspect. The film was well-received by the majority of commentators.
Martin produced I Like It Like That, a romantic comedy-drama film about a young woman's struggle to love her husband, keep her family close, assert her self-worth, and maintain her sanity all at the same time. Critics loved the film, but at the box office, it did not do well. Martin directed Prison Song in 2001.
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Betty White, and Sean Faris produced The Lost Valentine, a Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film directed by Martin in 2011. It's based on James Michael Pratt's book The Last Valentine, a 1998 New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and it's based on the same story. Betty White received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie in December 2011. The film, which not only attracted a huge audience in viewers (14.53 million), but it also dominated Fox's second hour of coverage of the NFL Pro Bowl, but it was also the most closely watched Hallmark film in four years (since the film Valley of Light premiered in January 2007). [6] At the 2012 Movieguide Awards, the film received the Faith & Freedom Award for Television.
Since being in possession of TV shows such as Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, and The Walking Dead, Martin has helmed episodes of Law & Order, among other things. Martin returned to the big screen in 2008, writing and directing Cadillac Records, a musical-drama film based on Leonard Chess' and the singers who performed for Chess Records in the early days of R&B and rock 'n' roll. Firelight, the well-received television film directed by Jennifer Mitchell in 2012. During season 7, she produced the Walking Dead's episode "Go Getters." In 2020, she hosted an episode on The Good Lord Bird. She also penned episode 4 of Netflix's Grand Army in 2020. She produced an episode of New Amsterdam in 2021.
