Brett Marty

Fame for: Directing

Biography

Brett Marty started as a commercial director and made the transition to long-form filmmaking with a handful of documentary projects and his narrative directorial debut, Youth, which has won a half dozen jury awards and played at more than 30 festivals, including Cannes. Before advertising — where he has directed over 75 pieces for over 50 companies — Brett worked as a documentary film editor. And, most recently, his short documentary projects have been featured on the front pages of The New Yorker, Vice, The Verge, and Vimeo Staff Picks. In previous lives, he studied ceramic sculpture at UC Berkeley, drove an old Buick from San Francisco to the tip of South America, and in 2008, helped Nate Silver launch FiveThirtyEight — a popular political website. Every four years, he still hits the trail as a presidential campaign photographer.