Martina Radwan

Películas

Food and Country
Director of Photography
America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
Queen of the Deuce
Cinematography
Chelly Wilson was a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn theaters in 1970s NYC. Through audio recordings, Chelly recounts her pre-war escape from Greece up through her unlikely motherhood and rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Fascinating WWII and NYC archival footage illustrate this entertaining story of a family and its matriarch, a truly unique character with chutzpah in spades
Let Me Be Me
Cinematography
This coming-of-age story focuses on Kyle Westphal, an isolated autistic boy who’s fascinated by fabric and emerges from an experimental autism treatment program to become a fashion designer. Westphal’s family looks back on twenty years of his development with candor and humor. The film combines observational footage, archival material, and animation to chronicle how a passion for fashion transformed Kyle and his family.
Desnúdate, rebélate
Director of Photography
Sigue las vivencias de un grupo de mujeres de distintas edades y trasfondos sociales y raciales que tratan de curarse de un trauma relacionado con su aspecto a través del arte del 'pole dance'.
Dear Santa
Cinematography
An elixir to our current state, "Dear Santa" takes us on the fanciful and poignant journey of a little known program called Operation Santa. For more than 100 years, human elves have been helping Santa respond to the thousands of letters children write and mail to him. This gripping documentary crisscrosses the country, following the most emotional letters as the elves work hard to make sure each child’s Christmas dreams come true.
The Good, The Bad, The Hungry
Cinematography
Two rivals address the years of animosity that defined their careers and their shared dream of achieving greatness on the world’s biggest stage: the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Inventing Tomorrow
Director of Photography
Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet’s environmental threats while navigating adolescence.
The Final Year
Director of Photography
Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House and State Department, The Final Year offers an uncompromising view of the inner workings of the Obama Administration as they prepare to leave power after eight years.
Pizza Shop: An Italian American Dream
Cinematography
With humor, insight, and compassion, this documentary shares the journey of two Italian brothers who have run a successful restaurant for over 40 years, the sacrifices they’ve made for their children, and what it means to immigrants when they fulfill the American Dream.
The Family I Had
Cinematography
In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act. Now, left to pick up the pieces, the survivors test the boundaries of their newly defined reality in this moving true crime exploration of the nature and limits of familial love.
Chicken People
Cinematography
The trials and tribulations of those who breed exotic birds in the world of competitive poultry; three remarkably rich and diverse personalities who come together to compete in their shared passion to raise the perfect chicken. The film will follow the struggles and triumphs of these characters, along with a wide array of competitors-both human and chicken-from the Ohio National Poultry Show, considered the Westminster of Chickens, to the Dixie Classic in Tennessee.
Trapped
Additional Director of Photography
TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
Under Construction
Director of Photography
Roya is a middle-class Muslim woman that struggles to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. When she discovers that she will be replaced by a younger actor for the role of Nandini —a central character of Rabindranath Tagore’s political play Red Oleanders —she battles to reconstruct the part, reclaiming her identity and sexuality in the process. As she sets the play in a modern day ready-made garment factory in Dhaka, her journey to establish her individuality is juxtaposed with the journey of her housemaid Moyna, who later joins the industrial workforce.
Watchers of the Sky
Director of Photography
Five interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
Hot Coffee
Cinematography
Hot Coffee revela lo que realmente pasó con Stella Liebeck, la mujer de Albuquerque que derramó el café sobre ella y demandó a McDonalds , mientras que la exploración de cómo y por qué el caso obtuvo tanta atención de los medios, que financió el esfuerzo y con qué fin.
Beautiful Darling
Director of Photography
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Blink
Director of Photography
A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Director of Photography
William Kunstler was one of the most famous lawyers of the 20th century. His clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Leonard Peltier. Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore their father’s life, from middle-class family man, to movement lawyer, to “the most hated lawyer in America.”
Train
Director of Photography
Un grupo de atletas universitarios norteamericanos de viaje por Europa, cogen un tren que les conducirá a una carrera mortal. Remake de la película "El tren del terror" (1980)
Rain
Director of Photography
Rain is a spirited fourteen-year old who, after the death of her grandmother, seeks out her estranged mother in the big city of Nassau. Her dreams of a loving reconciliation are quickly shattered when she meets Glory, a scarred, proud, guarded woman bearing no resemblance to the mother she had hoped for.
The Killing Floor
Director of Photography
Hay historias que se alimentan de tus miedos más íntimos, en las que el terror se convierte en el eje de tus peores pesadillas y el paso de cada página te sumerge más y más en las tinieblas. Y para un hombre cuya profesión consiste en buscar novelas de terror, es sólo cuestión de tiempo que estas historias se vuelvan contra él... Cuando David Lamont, un agente literario conocido como “El Rey del Terror”, marcha a vivir a un exclusivo y lujoso apartamento de Nueva York, comienza a recibir numerosas fotografías de un atroz crimen que parece haber tenido lugar en su nueva casa... Y también comienzan a llegarle cintas de vídeo que recogen todos y cada uno de sus movimientos... (FILMAFFINITY)
Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti
Camera Operator
Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced to death on September 22, 1995. Panetti has an extensive history of mental illness, including schizophrenia, manic depression, auditory hallucinations and paranoia. Panetti was hospitalized, both voluntarily and involuntarily for mental illness fourteen times in six different hospitals before his arrest for capital murder in 1992. Following his conviction, Panetti’s former wife, and daughter of the victims, Sonja Alvarado, filed a petition stating that Panetti never should have been tried for the crimes as he was suffering from paranoid delusions at the time of the killings.
Flannel Pajamas
Director of Photography
A study of a relationship that starts quickly, burns bright, and then gets rocky, not from any one thing, but from an accumulation of civilization and its discontents. Stuart is glib and generous, Nicole is shy and forthright. Is love enough to see them through?
¡Tan lejos, tan cerca!
Second Assistant Camera
Dos ángeles de la guarda vuelan sobre Berlín. Son invisibles y están llenos de benevolencia, pero no pueden intervenir en la vida de los hombres. Entonces Cassiel, el ángel de las lágrimas, se convierte en un ser humano para saber cómo sienten y perciben el mundo las personas... Secuela de "El cielo sobre Berlín" (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987), también dirigida por Wenders.