April Martin & Paul Hill

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Committed to the struggle for civil rights.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span class="agtiny"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">April Martin (&ldquo;Cincinnati Goddamn&rdquo; co-director/editor) </span></strong></span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Like anti-lynching activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, artist/activist April L. Martin is a &ldquo;Negro Adventuress&rdquo; documenting the pain, beauty and culture of her people. Martin&rsquo;s video subjects include Hurricane Katrina survivors, the historic commuted sentence of death-row inmate Jeffrey Hill, and the video installation as part of Kerry James Marshall&rsquo;s &ldquo;Rhythm Mastr&rdquo; project at The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;">She is the recipien</span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t</span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;"> of a Headlands Center for the Arts Residency (2009), the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2008), a Puffin Foundation Social Justice Grant (2007) and a Wexner Center for the Arts New Media Grant (2006). In 2004, Marti</span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">n was </span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;">named </span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">a fellow at</span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;"> the Academy for Alter</span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">native Journalism at the</span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;"> Medill School of Jour</span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">nalism at Northwestern</span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;"> University. In 2000, Martin was an intern at C-Span Television </span><span class="agtiny"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">through a fellowship at the National Journalism Center in Washi</span></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;">ngton, D.C.</span><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Cambria Bold Italic'; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Soo</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;">n</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Cambria Bold Italic'; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> after she retur</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria;">ned to Cincinnati from that internship, Martin&rsquo;s hometown exploded into the riots of April 7, 2001.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Cambria Bold Italic'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Paul Hill<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></strong><span class="agtiny"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(&ldquo;Cincinnati Goddamn&rdquo; co-director/editor)</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Cambria Bold Italic'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">is an award-winning editor and filmmaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He joined the Wexner Center&rsquo;s Film/Video Studio Program in 1996 where he edits with world-renowned visiting artists and teaches Avid classes. In 2002 he completed &ldquo;<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Myth of Father</span>,&rdquo; a documentary about the complexities of his relationship with his transgendered father. The film has been screened and won awards at festivals worldwide and is now being distributed by Frameline in San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Through the Film/Video Studio Program, Hill has edited and mixed sound for filmmakers and video artists including Sadie Benning, Barbara Hammer, Miranda July and Shimon Attie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He was also an editor for &ldquo;The Brandon Teena Story,&rdquo; which won the Best Documentary award at several festivals,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Berlin and Toronto among them. He was a contributing editor for the Oscar-nominated documentary &ldquo;<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A Lion In The House</span>.&rdquo;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Times;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Times;">To view their work visit www.crusadeforjustice.com</span></p>

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