Kent Martin, Director

In his 50-year career in filmmaking and still photography mostly working for the National Film Board of Canada, Kent Martin has produced and/or directed over 100 films on a range of subjects, including history, economics, nature and environment, spirituality, social issues, music, painting, and film animation. They have played in film festivals all over the world from Berlin, Melbourne, Montreal to the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin, Hot Docs and the Sundance Festival and they have been broadcast on the world's major television networks including BBC, CBC, PBS, CTV, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, ARTE, ZDF, Prime and Netflix.

His productions have garnered awards at film festivals and twenty Canadian Film Awards for Directing, Writing and Producing, including two Canada Awards. He has been nominated six times for the prestigious Donald Brittain Award for documentary filmmaking. The feature documentary Westray was short listed for an Academy Award.

His first book of still photography, Peggy's Cove Barrens: Rocks, Life, Sea and Sky was published In September of 2021.