Martine Blue is a multi award winning director of film, television and web content. She has been writing, directing and editing films for fifteen years. She began filmmaking with a do-it-yourself approach, working as a one-woman crew, performing most of the technical jobs herself, including the cinematography, lighting, editing and paying for the production out of pocket. Since relocating to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2008, the scope of her crews and budgets have significantly increased and she moved into the realm of features with Hunting Pignut, the million dollar Telefilm and NFLDC funded production she wrote, directed and edited. Hunting Pignut and the short dramatic-comedic fantasy The Perfect Family, are currently touring the international film festival circuit.
Her films have screened in festivals across the country, internationally, have been broadcast on The Sundance Channel, CBC and Moviola and have received distribution deals. She has won numerous awards for her work including The Newfoundland & Labrador Linda Joy Award and three Audience Choice Awards. She is currently the webisode writer/director for the French TV show Hors Circuits 2.
Martine’s technical/creative skills as a shooter and editor lead her into journalism where she freelanced as a video journalist/reporter for CBC News, St. John’s for seven years and has shot footage for Daily Planet – Discovery Channel, The Cancer Society, Novartis and for several corporate and charitable campaigns.
Awards & Nominations
Hunting Pignut (feature film)
2016 Nomination, Best Picture, Borsos Awards Whistler Film Festival
2016 Nomination, Best Female Director, Fiction Feature Film, EDA Awards, Whistler Film Festival
Me2 (short)
2015 Audience Choice Award, Granite Planet International Film Festival
The Perfect Family (short)
2014 NL Linda Joy Award, Atlantic Film Festival
Urban Twirl (short)
2010 Best of Category, Toronto Urban Film Festival
2010 People’s Choice Award, Barrie FIlm Festival
2010 3rd Place, Barrie Film Festival
The Solar Pop Man (short)
2010 Winner, Environmental Heros Film Competition
Nature’s Ashtray (short)
2008 People’s Choice Award, Barrie Film Festival
2008 2nd Place, Barrie Film Festival