Empowering the World's Documentarians

Trevor Martin

Producer, Guagua Productions

Brooklyn, NY US

Available for Freelance

Open To Mentoring

Open To Virtual Coffee

About

Trevor Martin is an Emmy-winning film producer based in Brooklyn, NY with 15 years of work in feature documentaries. His films have been distributed on platforms like HBO, Netflix, Apple+, Hulu and Showtime. He also produces commercials and branded work.

Featured Work

Petro

** Winner of the Grand Jury Honorable Mention for Best Feature Documentary Slamdance Film Festival 2024** In the midst of historic upheaval in Colombia, Senator Gustavo Petro, a former M-19 guerrilla leader, is the early front runner for president in 2022. Petro begins in September 2021 at the launch event of Petro's campaign. With unprecedented access to Colombia's most charismatic and polarizing politician, the film follows the highs and lows of the Colombian progressive movement and Petro's historic campaign for president through Election Day.

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Atención: Murderer Next Door

*Winner of the 2021 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish** What to do when your neighbors have carried out crimes against humanity. In this short documentary, we see how peaceful protests ensured that the perpetrators could no longer live in quiet anonymity. Now “escrache” is an important tool for activists seeking justice worldwide.

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The Jewel Thief

**2023 Nominee Critic's Choice Documentary Award -- Best True Crime Documentary** The unbelievable firsthand account of Gerald Blanchard, one of the most creative, calculating and accomplished criminal masterminds in modern history. Two unlikely Winnipeg detectives track Blanchard across the globe as he perpetrates a series of increasingly elaborate heists in a quest for fame and notoriety through a life of crime.

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Mr Wash

**2019 Webby Award Best Branded Documentary and 2019 D&AD Graphite Pencil Award in the Branded Content, Non-Fiction Film** Fulton “Mr Wash” Washington was sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of a non-violent drug offence in the 1990s. While inside, he turned to painting as a way of expressing himself. Granted clemency by Barack Obama, the film follows Wash as he rebuilds his life. It’s a story about art, family and second chances.

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