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Martin Kent
Writer/Director/Producer
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Kent has made over sixty documentaries during his distinguished career. His work, seen by a hundred million viewers, has been critically acclaimed and featured on NBC, ABC, PBS, A&E, History Channel, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Fox Sports and VH1, among others. Mr. Kent's range of subject matter has encompassed the world energy crisis, the Holocaust, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights era, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Civil War, the entertainment industry, architecture, sports, sports science, archeology, the automotive industry, aviation, military science, space exploration and nature. Prior to focusing on documentaries, Mr. Kent was a founding production executive of the E! Channel. He began his career as a print journalist; his work appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times syndicate, and other noteworthy publications. From 1979-82 he was Editor of the Hollywood Reporter; his significant contributions to the improvement of that paper were reported in Time magazine. Mr. Kent holds a Masters Degree in Broadcast Communications from Stanford University and has taught and lectured at UCLA.
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Martin Kent Biography