Jose del C. Martinez

Biography

Dominican Republic native Jose del Carmen Martinez is an accomplished filmmaker,camera operator and Director.
He start working in Telecentro TV 13 as an Editor and after a couple of month started to Direct some news magazines. At the same time was attending INTEC which is the Santo Domingo Technological Institute from he got the System Engineer title. At INTEC he met Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez who was one of the most acclaimed film critics in Latin American and started to work at the Cine Club from which later Jose became Director. in He won a scholarship to take the General Production Course/TV at RNTC (Radio Netherland Training Centre) Hilversum, Holland but not before taken a group of film and production courses all around Santo Domingo.
After came back from Holland, he worked at Circuito Independencia, channel 6 but after a year left to United State where he established in New York City and start working with some of the greater by that time in the music business working with people like Sean Puffy Combs, Mad Lion, FunMasterflex,Total,Notorious B,Smif-N-Wessun,Giant Storm,Mary Wilson,Parlay,
X-Cess,Mellow T,Kali Ranks and much more.
At the same time he has been working in features films in his native Dominican Republic with some of the greatest Hollywood Director like Sidney Lumet and Wes Craven. In US he worked for NBC’s Telemundo 47 in NJ and after he got transfer to Telemundo Network to work on the Morning Magazine “Esta Manana” .
Jose del Carmen Martinez keep working close with renown DP’s and Director’s like Shane Hurlbut, Sergei Franklin, Igor Sunara, Director Wes Craven, Sidney Lumet, Maria Betty and Rolando Hudson.
J C, like he usually like to be name has under his belt around 30 plus music videos, 25 plus feature and short films and around 25 plus commercials.

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