Martin Katz

Martin Katz

History

Martin Katz is a Canadian film and television producer. He holds degrees in law from the University of Toronto and the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Katz is founder of the Toronto-based film and television production company Prospero Pictures.

Profile

Martin Katz

Movies

Akilla's Escape
Executive Producer
In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.
Tammy's Always Dying
Executive Producer
A daughter's attempt to care for her ornery, ailing mother.
Trench 11
Executive Producer
In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.
Maps to the Stars
Producer
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Citizens of Cosmopolis
Self
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
Citizens of Cosmopolis
Executive Producer
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
Cosmopolis
Producer
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
A Dangerous Method
Co-Producer
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
The Making of Plus One
The Distributor
It's a Boy Girl Thing
Producer
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
Some Things That Stay
Executive Producer
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
Haven
Associate Producer
During a weekend, two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the nation.
Hotel Rwanda
Executive Producer
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Stander
Producer
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
The Gospel of John
Executive Producer
A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.
Spider
Executive Producer
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Backspot
Producer
Riley and Amanda, two impressive cheerleaders who have the opportunity to level up with The Thunderhawks where they must learn to find their voices and understand the generation of women that preceded them.
The Shrouds
Producer
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool, installed at his own controversial state-of-the-art cemetery, enables he and his clients to watch their specific departed loved ones decompose in real time. Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery, including that of his wife, are vandalized and nearly destroyed. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to re-evaluate his business, marriage, and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, and pushes him to new beginnings...
Humane
Executive Producer
In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Dragon
Producer
Set in the near future, “Dragon” envisions a society radically changed as a result of discovering ancient organic lifeforms drifting through the cosmos, whose alien biochemistry has been processed to create a hugely profitable drug. The film follows Captain Mia Verse and her crew as they hunt these “dragons” in deep space, seeking to secure a comfortable future.