EDUCATION

M.F.A. Temple University, Film and Media Arts Program. Graduated, 2012.

Certificate in Disability Studies. Temple University, College of Education, 2012.

B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University, Film and Photography. Graduated Cum Laude, 2005.

FILMS & SCREENINGS

Doorknob (In Production)  Short Animation. Writer, Animator.

2023 Recipient of the Ohio University’s Baker Award

Reunion (In Post- Production)  Short, Live Action. Writer, Co-Director

2023 Recipient of the College of Fine Arts Professional Development Award

Recipient of the Undergraduate Experiential Learning Stewardship Grant

Pottero (2021)  Short Animation. Writer, Animator.

2023 Official Selection Women of Appalachia Project , Winner Best in Show, OH

Official Selection Blow-Up International Art House Film Festival , Semi-Finalist Best Animation

2022 Official Selection Cucalorus Film Festival, NC

Official Selection Berkeley Springs Film Festival, Winner Best Short Screenplay, WVA

Official Selection 307 International Film Festival, WY

Official Selection Bedford International Film Festival, VA

Official Selection Provincetown International Film Festival, Winner Best Animation, MA

Official Selection Maryland Film Festival, MD

Official Selection Phoenix Film Festival, AZ

Official Selection Boston Underground Film Festival, MA

Official Selection Animation Dingle Film Festival and Conference, Ireland

Official Selection Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, MN

Official Selection North X North International Film Festival, MN

Official Selection Athens International Film and Video Festival, OH

Official Selection Davis Feminist Film Festival, CA

Official Selection New Jersey Film Festival, Winner Best Animation, NJ

Official Selection Adventure Film Festival 32MML, Spain

Official Selection WILDsound Feedback Film Festival, Canada

Official Selection Blue Ridge Film Festival, GA

Official Selection James River Short Film Showcase, Winner Best Film, VA

2021 Official Selection Anchorage International Film Festival, Winner Best Animated Short, AK

Official Selection Axwound Film Festival, VT

Official Selection Festival International Del Cinema Di Salerno, Italy

Official Selection Toronto International Women Film Festival, Winner Best Animation, Canada

Official Selection Short to the Point, Romania

Official Selection LA Independent Women Film Awards, CA

Official Selection Animation Marathon, Greece

Official Selection Carrboro Film Festival, NC

Official Selection Lake Placid Film Festival, NY

2020 UFVA Conference WIP Screening

Daughter (2020)  Music Video. Director, DP

2020 International Release through Good Cry Records

Little Wilderness (2015-2020)  Feature film script. Writer.

2018 Quarter Finalist for the Screencraft Feature Screenplay Competition

2017 Quarter Finalist for the 2017 Slamdance Screenplay Competition

2017 North Mountain Artist in Residence, Shanghai, WV.

2015 Finalist for Sundance Screenwriting Labs

The FBI Blew Up My Ice Skates (2016) Co-directed with Sara Zia Ebrahimi Hughes

2021 Monitor: Surveillance, Data, and the New Panoptic Fall exhibition ICA: MECA Portland, ME

2020 Asian Pacific Virtual Showcase (APVS): Retrospective, Los Angelos, CA

2017       Remember When Shorts Line-Up PhillyCAM. Phila, PA

               Official Selection Open Video Call, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. Phila, PA.

               Official Selection DC Asian American Film Festival. Washington, D.C.

               Official Selection Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival. Ithaca, NY. 

               Official Selection Columbus International Film Festival. Columbus, OH. 

               Official Selection Cleveland International Film Festival. Cleveland, OH.

               Official Selection DC Asian American Film Festival. Washington, D.C.

               Newton Theater Independent Film Showcase.  Bucks County, PA.

               Philadelphia Film Showcase.  Philadelphia, PA

2016       Official Selection Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Philadelphia, PA. 

AKA Profile Glitch (2014) Writer and Performer. 

2015        Official Selection International Symposium on Electronic Art. Vancouver, Canada.

Love Letter (2012) Super 16 mm, TRT 13:00. Writer/Director.

2014    Official Selection Citizen Jane Film Festival. Columbia, MO.

          Official Selection Louisville International Festival of Film. Louisville, KY.

          Official Selection Snake Alley Festival of Film. Burlington, Iowa.

         Official Selection Berkshire Shorts. Lee, MA.

            Official Selection Slamdance Film Festival. Park City, Utah.

 2013    Official Selection Brooklyn International Film Festival. Brooklyn, NY.

 2012    Puppet Manualfesto Fall Showcase. Walking Fish Theater, Philadelphia, PA.

          Uprooted Screening Series. Philadelphia, PA.

Every Speed (2012)  TRT 12:07. Co-directed with Julia Fuller

2015    Official Selection New Urbanism Film Festival. Los Angelos, CA.

           Soulful Chicago Stories sponsored by Chicago Artist Month, Chicago, IL.

            Run of Life: Experimental Documentary and Expanded Media Series. Chicago, IL.

            Bodies and Boundaries Conference sponsored by New York University. Washington, D.C.

            Official Selection Ethnografilm Festival. Paris, France.

2014   Official Selection Street Utopia- American Institute’s Architects Architecture in the City Festival.                      San Francisco, CA.

          Official Selection Screening Scholarship Media Festival. University of Pennsylvania.                                         Philadelphia, PA.  

2013    Official Selection San Francisco Documentary Festival. San Francisco, California.

            Main text for Professor Gail Corso’s English 101 Course. Newton University, PA.

            Official Selection Louisville International Festival of Film. Louisville, Kentucky.

            Official Selection Northside Festival DIY Competition, Brooklyn, New York.

            Temple University’s Disability and the Teaching of Writing Symposium at Bryn Mawr Film Institute,                  Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

           Official Selection Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio.

           Official Selection Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, Iowa.

            Official Selection Asolo Film Festival, juried program. Asolo, Italy. Winner Best Film on Architecture.

It's Not You, It's We (2010) TRT 7:00

2011     Moles Not Molar Reading and Screening Series Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

           Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art Winter Exhibition.

            Official Selection Open Video Call Screening, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.

            Official Selection Access and Paradox, The NOMAD Project, juried program. Paris, France.

2010    Some Things Change, Gallery One. Philadelphia, PA.

            Diamond Screen Film Festival. Philadelphia, PA Nominated for Best Graduate Film, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Narrative Film, Diamond Screen Film Festival. Philadelphia, PA.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2019-now     Assistant Professor & Associate Director School of Film, Ohio University. Athens, OH.

2016- 2019   Assistant Professor. Film Production and Animation. Wright State University Motion                             Pictures Department. Dayton, OH. 

2011-2015    Senior Lecturer. Documentary Production Workshop. University of the Arts Film & Video                     Department. Philadelphia, PA.

                    Instructor. Cinematography. University of the Arts Saturday School. Philadelphia, PA. 

                    Senior Lecturer. Creative Practices, The Artist’s Process. University of the Arts Common                     Curriculum. Philadelphia, PA. Course co- developed with Loren Hunt, Liberal Arts                                 Faculty.

                    Instructor. Digital Filmmaking Workshop. University of the Arts Summer Institute.                                   Philadelphia, PA.

                  Senior Lecturer. The Art of Editing. University of the Arts Film & Video Department. Philadelphia,                   PA. 

                    Senior Lecturer. Video Production Workshop. University of the Arts Film & Video                                   Department. Philadelphia, PA.

2009-2010  Teaching Assistant. Senior Projects Capstone Course. Temple University Film and Media                         Arts Department, Philadelphia, PA.

2008-2009 Teaching Assistantship. Filmmaking. Temple University Film and Media Arts Department,                         Philadelphia, PA.

CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIUMS

2015      “Bodies and Boundaries.” Screening featuring Every Speed. New York University.

2014       “Practical Aspects of Video in the Classroom”. MedEd Learning and Technology                                   Symposium. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

               Distinguished Alumni Symposium. Department of Photography and Film, Virginia                                     Commonwealth University’s School of Art. Richmond, VA.

2012       “Every Speed: Disability and Time”. Temple University’s Disability and the Teaching of                         Writing Symposium Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

2010       “Every Speed: Disability and Time”. Association of University Centers on Disabilities                               Conference. Crystal City, VA. 

PUBLICATIONS

2011      Italian Vogue Online Publication, Asolo Art Film Festival, Every Speed

http://www.vogue.it/en/uomo-vogue/news/2011/08/asolo-film-festival 

PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

2023 Animator. Safety State, directed by Jeanette Buck.

2016     Animator. Of Origins: Hannah, directed by Irit Reinheimer.

2015     Animator. Wisdom Gone Wild, directed by Rea Tajiri.

             Director and Producer. Communicating with Victims and Suspects: Significant Speech                                      Disabilities. Produced by Dr. Beverly Frantz and the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University.

             Director and Producer. Disabilities and the Criminal Justice System: Best Practices for Law                              Enforcement and Corrections. Produced by Dr. Beverly Frantz and the Institute on Disabilities at                      Temple University. 

             Director and Producer. Autism and First Responders: Seeing Beyond the Smoke. Produced by Dr.                    Beverly Frantz and the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. Training video created for first                 responders in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Screened statewide.

2013     Creative Producer and Animator. I Told Her This Was Home, Dir. Irit Reinheimer 

2011-12  Camera Operator. Visionary Voices: Leaders, Legacy, and Lessons: A History of the Intellectual                      Disability Movement in Pennsylvania. Dir. Lisa Sonnenborn.

2005    Production Assistant. HBO's John Adams. Braintree Productions.

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

2012-2014   Digital Media Consultant. University of Pennsylvania.

2010- 2012  Project Assistant. Visionary Voices: Leaders, Legacy, and Lessons: A History of the Intellectual                         Disability Movement in Pennsylvania Temple University.

2008- 2012  Project Assistant. The Institute on Disabilities, Criminal Justice and Sexuality, Temple University.

2007-2008   Project Assistant. The Institute on Disabilities, Competence and Confidence: Partners and                                Policymaking Programs, Temple University.

2006- 2008  Theaters Department Supervisor. The Franklin Institute. 2004- 2006         

                      Photography Assistant. Lee Brauer Photography.

AWARDS & GRANTS

2020 Appalachian Recovery Project Grant- Funded by Appalachian Regional Commission & Ohio Arts Council

2013     Director’s Citation 32nd Black Maria Film Festival, Love Letter

             Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association Finishing Grant, Love Letter

2012     Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association Finishing Grant, Every Speed

2011      Winner Best Film in Architecture. Asolo Art and Film Festival, Every Speed

             Fialkowski Scholarship for graduate work in Disability field University Completion Grant, Love Letter

2010     Scholarship for Association of University Centers on Disabilities Conference

             Temple Film and Media Arts Departmental Completion Grant, Every Speed

2009    Temple Film and Media Arts Distribution Grant, Seasick 

2005     VCU Film Festival Best Film, Bug Eater

PRESS

“Ohio Humanities, Wexner Center for the Arts Announce the Recipients of 2024–25 Ohio Humanities Film Fellowships” https://www.ohiohumanities.org/2024/03/14/ohio-humanities-wexner-center-for-the-arts-announce-the-recipients-of-202425-ohio-humanities-film-fellowships/ 

“Ohio Humanities, Wexner Center for the Arts Announce the Recipients of 2024–25 Ohio Humanities Film Fellowships” https://wexarts.org/press-release/ohio-humanities-wexner-center-arts-announce-recipients-2024-25-ohio-humanities-film

“Film professor Lindsey Martin awarded Ohio Humanities Film Fellowship” by Sophia Rooksbury https://www.ohio.edu/news/2024/04/film-professor-lindsey-martin-awarded-ohio-humanities-film-fellowship

“Lindsey Martin's Pottero - An Inspiring Tale About Monsters, Loss, and Crisis” by Talisa Lemke https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/film/blog/lindsey-martins-pottero-inspiring-tale-about-monsters-loss-and-crisis

“CoArts champions women in recovery healing through the power of the arts”- https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/coarts/coarts-champions-women-recovery-healing-through-power-arts

“Embracing Monsters”- Talking Studio Episode 13 - https://soundcloud.com/ohio-fine-arts/talking-studio-episode-13-embracing-monsters/s-mjtvglaQP9E

 “Boone Docs Film Festival to feature Appalachian stories” by Jillian Mobley Mountain Times- https://www.wataugademocrat.com/mountaintimes/boone-docs-film-festival-to-feature-appalachian-stories/article_5c6abdf1-bb2c-5896-b520-312052c7e24a.html

Filmmaker Video Q+A with Pottero Director Lindsey Martin on New Jersey Stage https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/getarticle2.php?titlelink=new-jersey-film-festival-spring-2022-filmmaker-video-qplusa-with-pottero-director-lindsey-martin

“School of Film student, Sam Brandes experiences how the arts impact health” by Emma Skidmore https://www.ohio.edu/news/2022/09/school-film-student-sam-brandesexperiences-how-arts-impact-health

“Appalachian Recovery Project at Ohio University receives $1.1M grant from Appalachian Regional Commission" https://highlandcountypress.com/headlines/appalachian-recovery-project-ohio-university-receives-11m-grant-appalachian-regional#gsc.tab=0

“Interview with Animator/Filmmaker Lindsey Martin” on WildSound Podcast https://matthewtoffolo.com/2021/12/29/interview-with-animator-filmmaker-lindsey-martin-pottero/

“How Pinterest Let’s This Mom Still Make Films” by Sara Zia Ebrahimi- https://www.pyragraph.com/2015/11/how-pinterest-lets-this-mom-still-make-films/

Italian Vogue Online Publication, Asolo Art Film Festival, Every Speed http://www.vogue.it/en/uomo-vogue/news/2011/08/asolo-film-festival