Beautiful Faces
A documentary film
produced and directed by Russell Martin

A compelling new film about a Mexico City hospital where young lives are transformed. Beautiful Faces is an intimate portrait of one of the world’s most remarkable hospitals, the disfigured young patients to whom it offers new lives, and the team of surgeons, physicians, and medical professionals who believe that it’s the best place in the world to practice their unique, life-transforming craft. It's a film that’s at once moving and inspiring, informative and challenging, a story that’s told with narrative power and visual eloquence.

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After
A documentary film
produced and directed by Russell Martin

What happens after we die? It’s a question we and our and forbearers have asked since the time 100,000 years ago when Neanderthals—probably still lacking true language—began to bury their dead with flowers, expressing the hope, anthropologists presume, that something newly generative would follow life.

After is an intelligent, moving, visually stunning examination of our universal quest to know more about what follows death as well as the myriad ways in which that desire profoundly affects the ways we live.

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Rise
An original pilot for a television series,
written by Russell Martin and Lydia Nibley

Rise is a show about a doctor in a small Arizona town who discovers that the experimental allergy drug she prescribes is a kind of legal ecstasy. The drug suddenly scrambles her patients’ lives—some for the better and others for the worse. It transforms their outlooks, libidos, and their relationships. And the doctor’s life and her family are turned upside down as well. The ensemble cast of white and Latino characters struggles with the fine line between living a larger life and utterly screwing it up, as each of them questions just what they are willing to risk in order to try to feel and be better.

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Concerto
A book and adapted screenplay by Russell Martin

Concerto tells the remarkable true story of cellist and conductor Pablo Casals’s dramatic personal journey for peace and justice in the mid-twentieth century, and his decision at the height of his extraordinary international career to stop performing or conducting, an act of political and moral protest that he maintained for fully thirteen years. Both book and film examine how one artist and humanitarian successfully found a way to act responsibly and forcefully in the face of a world seemingly gone mad—a subject that has particular relevance as each of us struggles with similar challenges today.

Out of Silence
A film based on the book by Russell Martin

Out of Silence is the true story of a boy trapped in his inability to communicate, struggling with autism to regain language. It is a drama that recounts a family's determination to help a son find his way back to words; a school's willingness to make room for a severely disabled child; a story too, about seemingly insurmountable problems and small but noble victories.