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Richard Martini (born 12 March
1955) is an award-winning American film director, producer, screenwriter and freelance journalist.
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Martini was born in 1955 and grew up in Northbrook, Illinois.
He attended local public schools. He graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a degree in
Humanities, attended University of Southern California Film School and is a 2008 graduate of the Master
of Professional Writing Program at USC. His student short film, Lost
Angels, was the film debut of fellow Chicago native, actress Daryl Hannah.[1] He took improv classes at Second City in Chicago under Jo Forsberg,
and with the Harvey Lembeck Workshop in Los Angeles.
His first documentary film, Special
Olympians,[2] won the top prize at the 1980
Mexico City International Film Festival. He made his feature film directorial
debut with You Can't Hurry
Love,[3] which featured the debut of Bridget Fonda. TNT described
it as the “quintessential 80’s comedy.”
Martini left USC to work for
writer/director Robert Towne (Chinatown, Mission:
Impossible); he served as an acting coach for Robert Evans on
the original The Two Jakes.[4] After that Martini wrote his
first feature My Champion,[5] which starred Christopher (son
of Robert) Mitchum and Yoko Shimada (Shogun). He wrote the comedy Three
For the Road for Vista Films, which starred Charlie Sheen.[6]
Martini directed a comedy short, “Video
Valentino,”[7] shot by fellow USC alum John Schwartzman (DP of The Amazing
Spider-Man) and produced by Jonathan D. Krane. The short led to a deal
with Vestron Pictures, where he made You Can’t Hurry Love starring Bridget Fonda, Charles Grodin and Kristy McNichol based on the short.[8]
Martini co-wrote and directed two films for
producer Jonathan D. Krane:
the Faustian comedy Limit Up, set in Chicago, starring Nancy Allen and
blues icon Ray Charles,[9] and Point of Betrayal (1996) starring Dina Merrill, Rod Taylor and Rebecca Broussard, which won the Palm Beach
International Film Festival as Best Film.[10][11] Martini then co-wrote and
directed Cannes Man (released
on iTunes in 2010) starring Francesco Quinn and Seymour Cassel, with appearances by Johnny Depp and the "cast of
characters who inhabit the film festival each year."[12]
Martini wrote and directed the Dogme 95 film Camera – Dogme #15,shot
on digital video; it follows the life of a video camera around the world.[13][14]
He has also directed documentaries: Tibetan
Refugee[15] explores the Tibetan community
in Dharamsala, White City/Windy City explores the relationship
between Chicago and Casablanca in the Eisenhower "Sister Cities" program,[16] and Journey Into Tibet,
follows Buddhist scholar and author Robert Thurman on a sacred journey around Mt. Kailash in western Tibet.[17][18]
Martini co-wrote and produced My Bollywood Bride[19] starring Jason Lewis and
Sanjay Suri (released as My Faraway Bride).
Martini’s television credits include
producing segments and appearing on the award-winning Charles Grodin
Show on CNBC. He wrote an upcoming miniseries for HBO
about the notorious House of Medici.
He has also written freelance articles for Variety, Premiere, Inc.com, edited and wrote Epicurean
Rendezvous' "Best 100 Restaurants in Los Angeles" and appeared in USA Today as a commentator about
"American Idol."[20] He also contributed a chapter
to Charles Grodin's
book "If I Only Knew Then... Learning from our mistakes." (Springboard Press.)
He worked on the films Amelia and Salt as a digital media curator,
pioneering a method of pre-visualizing a film online. Film director Phillip Noyce hired him to work on both
films.
Based on his documentary about hypnotherapy and between life therapist
Michael Newton's work Destiny of Souls, Martini's book on
the afterlife, Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the
Afterlife,[21] has become a best seller at
Amazon. The documentary based on the book was picked up by Gaiam TV for distribution in 2014.[22] The book went to #1 at Amazon
in all its genres twice.[23] The series It's a
Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures into the Flipside Volume One[24] and Volume Two[25] includes interviews with Dr. Bruce Greyson on consciousness and the near-death experience, Gary Schwartz on his research into consciousness, and Mario Beauregard on his
research in neurotheology.
Martini compares accounts of near-death
experiences with transcripts of hypnotherapy sessions of people under
deep hypnosis to highlight their similarities.
Martini has taught film directing at Loyola
Marymount University, the Maine Media Workshops,
and the John Felice Rome
Center.
He is married and has two children. The
family lives in Santa Monica,
California.
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Flipside: A Journey into the Afterlife [21] - 2012 - Writer, Director, Producer.
Amazon. A documentary that explores the work of Michael Newton with interviews
of hypnotherapists, footage of past life regressions and life between life
sessions.
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Salt [22] -
2010 - Curated content, digital flashback sequences, Associate to Mr. Noyce.
Sony. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schrieber. Phillip Noyce directed thriller.
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Amelia (film) [23] -
2009 - Curated content, Researcher. Fox 2000. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere. The
aviator's journey from 1928-1937.
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My Bollywood Bride [24] –
2006 – Co-Writer, Associate Producer. DreamTeam Pictures. Jason Lewis, Kashmira
Shah, Sanjay Suri, Golshen Grover. Hollywood meets Bollywood in a romantic
comedy.
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Cowboy Up[25] -
Second Unit Dir. 2000 Xavier Koller, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah. Orchid
Prods. Championship Bull Riding.
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Camera – Dogme #15 [26]–
Director, Writer. Odyssey Pictures Prod. 2001 Carol Alt, Angie Everhart, Rebecca Broussard. Designated Dogme #15 by the
Danish film group.
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Cannes Man (film) [27] -
Director, Co-Writer, Music. Rocket Pictures. 1997. Tom Coleman Prod. Seymour
Cassel, Francesco Quinn. Guest appearances by Johnny Depp, John Malkovich.
(“Hilarious” Hollywood Rep. “Fast, furious, fun satire” NY Post)
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Point of Betrayal [28]-
Director, Music. Trident/Dove International. 1996. Jonathan Krane Prod. Rod
Taylor, Dina Merrill, Rebecca Broussard. Paramount Home Video (Rod Lurie - Buzz
Magazine; “a terrific film” )
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Limit Up [29] -
Writer/Director. MCEG. 1989 Jonathan Krane Prod. Nancy Allen, Dean Stockwell,
Ray Charles. (Ent. Weekly - “Splendid, delightful, with good cast, good script,
tidy direction.”)
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You Can’t Hurry
Love [30] - Writer/Director. Vestron 1988 J.D.
Krane Prod. Bridget Fonda, Charles Grodin. (`Three stars’ Chicago Sun Times.)
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Three for the Road [31] -
Co-Writer, Story. Vista 1987 Charlie Sheen, Kerri Green. (“A jolly good time”
NY Post “Charming” Newsday)
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Flipside A Journey into the Afterlife [33]- Director. Based on the best selling
Amazon book (2012)
