A Sample of My Older Work

Just to start showing everyone some of my older work, here's a video I shot for XYZ RGB to help promote instant scanning technology about 4 years ago.  It was shot using an HVX 200 at 48 frames a second.

The Film Festival

I had a great time at the Ottawa International Film Festival.  This was more or less my first film festival and I had three things showing in it!  It was a great experience and I got to meet a lot of great people and make a lot of new contacts.

So thank you Nina Bains and all those at OIFF for giving me such a great opportunity!

I highly recommend sending your films to festivals.  You can learn a lot being at a festival plus the exposure it gives you.  Oh and the parties are great too!  If you get in one talk to as many of the people and fellow film makers as you can. 

Highlights of the festival included Thirteen Downs, Undercurrents and Marilyn. 

Thirteen Downs stars the great up and coming actress/singer Sophia Radisch.  I’ve had the pleasure to work with Sophia on a couple of projects. One was my aforementioned project Homecoming.  Another was a music video for her song “I can.”  It also played the festival.  If her movie, Thirteen Downs, comes to a festival near you I highly recommend you watch it.

Undercurrents is a thriller about a hitman played by the fantastic Jon Maclaren.  Matt Stefiuck was great in the flick as Jon’s coke sniffing buddy.

And Marilyn was a great bio pick about a robber starring Sancuary’s Ryan Robbins and Smallville’s Alison Mack.  Those two showed that they have some great acting chops!

And now it’s back to work on my next short and high past time I start following it here!

Countdown to OIFF

Two days until the Ottawa International Film Festival Begins!

I've already mentioned Speak of the Devil.  But I also have another film playing at the festival.

It's called Homecoming.  It's a heartwarming story of  13 year old girl meeting her biological father for the first time.  It won the viewers choice award at the Ottawa 72 Hour Film Challenge earlier this year.  I co-wrote and co-produced the film and I was the Director of Photography on it.

The star of Homecoming , Sophia Radisch,  is also staring in the feature film "13 Downs" which is opening the festival. 

Welcome to Mage Arts!

This is an Indy Film and Production blog. I'll be following the progress of some of my Indy films from beginning to end as well as discussing other topics such as tech and techniques.

First of all my name is Martin Rodriguez. I've worked extensively in the film industry and independent scene for more than a decade.  I travel to film sets to take photographs and 3D Scans of actors and props to create 3D models for Visual Effects. Movies I've worked on include:

The Matrix Sequels, Batman Begins, The Brave One, Jumper, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Shoot em up, 300, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Blades of Glory, Splice, Public Enemies, Whiteout, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, District 9, Percy Jackson, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Let Me In, I am Number Four, Three Musketeers, Source Code, Tower Heist, Immortals, Resident Evil: Retribution and many more!

On the Indy front, besides working on many short films as crew, I co-produced a feature film called “Dealer” for Seville Pictures. Sadly it has not been released. I also co-produced another feature that's in post currently. More about that one later...

I've also directed several shorts. One them, Speak of the Devil, a horror comedy, is playing at the Ottawa International Film Festival on August 18^th.