Born in New York City, Martini made his feature film debut as co-writer, producer and actor in the award winning and critically acclaimed independent film, Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999) which won the Discovery award at the Toronto International Film Festival and The Audience Award at The Milan International Film Festival. The film was ...
Isabella Martini born in 2009, Alexandra Martini born in 2011
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Who decides what the American dream is? This dogged pursuit that happened during the '70s and the '80s, that overindulgence, in essence created an environment that was paradise gone bad. - NY Newsday on "Lymelife"
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It was very easy to select Rory Culkin. I don't know if you've seen You Can Count On Me, and Signs, and even in You Can Count On Me he was so young but I really loved that movie, it's one of my favorite movies. The understated performances he gave in both films, and the things he does with his eyes - just his eyes - I just knew that he felt, to me, like one of those actors...he reminds me of a young Paul Newman. When you see his eyes, he does so much with his eyes; when I was imagining shooting him I just thought I was going to get a lot out of his eyes. I don't need as many words in the script. I think that's better filmmaking in general. - Sundance Interview
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I'm going to get married, I want to have kids. In my own life I'm going to slow down a bit. - The New York Times.
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In Queens, Brooklyn, all those places in the late '60s and early '70s, you had all this opportunity opening up for blue-collar guys. They were suddenly able to jump ahead in life. - New York Times interview on his film "Lymelife"
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We begged, borrowed, stole and racked up our credit cards to finish the film. - New York Times article on Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish (2000).
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Winner of the Toronto Film Festival's Discovery award for the film "Smiling Fish And Goat On Fire" (1999).
As well as appearing as an Executive Producer on "Lymelife", Martin Scorsese's name also appears on Steven and Derick's micro-budget film "Smiling fish And Goat On Fire" as Martin Scorsese Presents.
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The Martini brothers were invited to develop their film "Lymelife" at the Sundance Filmmaker's lab. During the summer long lab they were one of the focal points of the Robert Redford produced documentary Sundance 20 (2002), an inside look at the filmmaker's and screenwriter's lab.
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Graduated from the same Long Island high school as Natalie Portman.
$100,000
