Biography

Best known for historically based thrillers, writer-director AJ Martinson III was born on May 25, 1993 in Pasadena, California.

AJ has worked as a producer and director on a number of projects, from reality TV's Divine Intervention with Father Steve to Blackmark, his first feature film which was acquired by Bleiberg Entertainment in 2017.

At age 17, AJ made his first micro-documentary, Two Lives Saved, about a child and her blind grandfather living in Ethiopia. This film won him ABC 7's Cool Kid Award and launched his filmmaking career.

After graduating high school in 2011 he founded his production company, Section 3 Films, which creates commercials, documentaries and narrative films with an emphasis on branded content for the web.

Over the next six years AJ would go on to build his career on several independent films as an editor and cinematographer, including Pantheon Studios The Mona Lisa Myth and Walt - The Man Behind the Myth - the official Walt Disney biopic.

In 2014 AJ began work on his first feature film, originally titled Red Fish Blue Fish, now Blackmark a Cold War Spy Thriller which was acquired by Bleiberg Entertainment in 2017. Acting as writer, director, producer and editor on the project, AJ brought the military industrial complex and the Kennedy Assassination to the forefront of his 1960s era film - showing his propensity for historically based films.

In mid 2020 AJ completed post production on Documentary feature "The End of Blindness" a followup to "Two Lives Saved".

Presently he continues to build his career as a narrative director while working on branded content through Section 3 Films.

- IMDb mini biography by: TS Anderson