Voices

Martín Bustamante Solares has been a passionate film lover since he was a child, when he went to the movies with his father. He remembers one of his first movie going experiences being Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket when he was around six years old at the dollar cinema in El Paso Tx.
His imagination grew by viewing many films during the 80’s from Excalibur, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future to cop buddy movies and many more films from the era which marked a generation.
His father sadly passed away when Martín was fifteen years old. A heartbreaking experience since his father was very close to him. Around that time, he rewatched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey making this moment the turning point for him to decide to make movies for the rest of his life.
He subsequently discovered the cinema of Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Griffith, Bergman, Dreyer, the French New Wave, Bresson, Italian Neo Realists, Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford, John Huston, Luis Buñuel, Chaplin, the experimental films of Stan Brakhage and the American Avant Garde and many more film history giants. As well as modern masters like Scorsese, Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Paul Thomas Anderson to name a few and being this last one, one of his greatest influences.
Martín made an experimental amateur feature film when he was nineteen years old with his friends. “Poetry Without Language” it took him a year to film/record it on Hi8 and VHS-C. Edited from VCR to VCR.
He’s had many day jobs from working at Blockbuster in Monterey California to being a deckhand on a fishing boat in Alaska, sales representative for the medical industry, telemarketing, he’s written several film essays and interviewed several filmmakers such as Arturo Ripstein, Guillermo Arriaga, Everardo González, Carlos Cuarón and more for cultural magazines in Mexico.
He has currently directed three short films “Destello”, “Selfie” and “Voices” and is working on two feature film screenplays.
He teamed up with partner in crime director, writer and cinematographer Isaach Hermar to form “Invertebrado Films” for which they’ve made “Selfie” and “Voices” and are developing exciting new projects to come.