Martin Andres Markovits

Martin Markovits is a director, producer and multimedia reporter. He worked as freelance journalist for five years throughout Latin America for publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Statesman, the Huffington Post and Earth Island Journal. He has produced radio and video features for China Central Television, ABC-Univsion, Free Speech Radio News Network and PBS NewsHour. He was also the Mexico Correspondent for CGTN America. He has reported extensively in Venezuela, covering the Hugo Chavez presidency, politics and culture. He has also worked throughout Latin America and the US, reporting on the hotly contested 2006 Mexican presidential election and Colorado's controversial ban on thousands of voter registrations in the 2008 presidential election. In 2011, he graduated with a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. Martin has recently finished his first feature length documentary, Tupamaro, about a group of armed Venezuelan vigilantes. It was first developed while he was studying at Columbia's Documentary Program. It won Best Feature Film and Best Foreign Film at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. It also won the Silver Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival. Martin is a Los Angeles native and attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, majoring in political science.