Mardik Martin(1934-2019)
- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Mardik Martin is in the elite group of screenwriters on WGA's list of
101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. He immigrated to the United
States from Iraq to attend 'New York University'. He won the Mahler
award and graduated with a Master's degree in Screenwriting in 1968,
then went on to teach at NYU from 1968 to 1973. Mardik moved to
Hollywood after Mean Streets (1973),
which he co-wrote with Martin Scorsese,
became a huge success. He worked for Chartoff-Winkler Productions in
the years following, writing screenplays like
Valentino (1977) and collaborating with
Scorsese on multiple projects before writing the first three drafts of
Raging Bull (1980). Recently Martin
co-wrote the screenplay to
Fatih Akin's
The Cut (2014) which premiered in the
Competition at the 'Venice Int. Film Festival 2014'. Mardik Martin is a
professor at the prestigious 'USC School of Cinematic Arts', having
mentored and taught thousands of the brightest young luminaries in the
movie business.
