Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

Ricardo Martinez
Director
The Wall


Ricardo Martinez was born to Ecuadorian and Mexican immigrants and grew up in Oakland, California.  At l6, he won a Silver Spire from the San Francisco International Film Festival for his first documentary short.   
    
Graduating from NYU/ Tisch Film School, Ricardo's first job was to launch a cable channel, for RCN Corp, working with billionaire David McCourt.

Over the last seven years, he has worked on reality and documentary programming for ABC, MTV, VH1, MSNBC, Discovery, History Channel, The Weather Channel, Scripps, and Details.com.

The past two years, Ricardo has traveled the Southwest documenting perspectives on immigration.  He has interviewed federal and local law enforcement officials, illegal immigrants, immigration lawyers, organized labor officials, the Social Security Administration, border land owners, mayors, congressmen, clergymen, Mexican municipalities, coyotes, and anti-immigrant activists. 
    
Today he works as a staff editor and motion graphics designer for an ABC reality show that he's not supposed to name.