Paloma Martinez is an award winning non-fiction filmmaker interested in artfully humanizing complex social and political structures while pushing the boundaries of the documentary form. Her short documentaries, Enforcement Hours, Crisanto Street and The Shift, have been distributed in The New York Times Op-Docs, The Guardian and The Atlantic, respectively. Crisanto Street was also broadcast nationally on POV Shorts on PBS.
Before becoming filmmaker, she spent her formative years working in labor rights activism in her native Texas within the Mexican migrant communities in which she grew up. In her organizing work, she learned the power of the outsider narrative and the role of art within social justice movements.
In addition to her individual directing credits, Paloma has co-directed the documentary feature Ready or Not, acquired by Fuse Documentaries, and edited the upcoming documentary short Change the Name which will premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Paloma holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University and a BA in Economics from Boston University.