Biography
Darnell Martin (born January 7, 1964) is an American television and film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Wish You Well
2013
Director
A young girl and her brother come of age at their great grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1940s. After a family tragedy, a young girl moves f...
Side by Side
2012
as Self
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmak...
Firelight
2012
Director
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
The Lost Valentine
2011
Director
A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war s...
Cadillac Records
2008
Director, Writer
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, includ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
Director
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mor...
Prison Song
2001
Director, Writer
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholar...
Nowhere Fast
1996
as Darnell
The lives of 19 rather disagreeable people momentarily converge in a Brooklyn heat wave one Friday afternoon in director Cinque Lee's (Spike Lee's bro...
I Like It Like That
1994
Director, Writer
After her husband is arrested for looting, Lisette struggles for independence while dealing with her gender-confused sibling, her critical mother-in-l...
Suspect
1991
Writer, Director, Producer
A young white woman leaving a nightclub alone drops her cigarette lighter on the street. When a young black man follows her and attempts to return it,...
Do the Right Thing
1989
Second Assistant Camera
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer...
Deadly Obsession
1989
as Denise
A psycho college janitor threatens to start killing female students if he isn't given a million dollars.
Little brother
N/A
Director