Robert Daniel Martin is a lifelong hockey player, Muay Thai practitioner, storyteller, and adventurer who learned the craft of screenwriting, directing, and international film production at the renowned graduate film school of NYU Tisch Asia in Singapore. During the program, Robert ventured around the world on productions in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. Inspired by grand sweeping epics and adventure films, Robert explored the ancient rice terraces of the Philippines by directing the foreign language film "The Banaue Boy" in a UNESCO World Heritage Site produced in an indigenous region even further north than the final sequence shot in Apocalypse Now. The narrative short received the most accumulated awards at the 2015 NYU Tisch Asia First Run Festival for Best Acting, Screenwriting, Producing, Cinematography, and Editing. For his thesis short film, Robert reconnected with his roots as a Minnesota native to direct "State of the Game." Based on a number of harrowing true events in the world of high school hockey exposed around his hometown, the genre-bending story contained elements of suspense, thriller, sports, and drama; and received several awards and support before the start of production. It won the Hollywood Screenplay Contest for Best Short Screenplay, the Dennis Riese Production Grant, and free legal counsel and production prep by the Southwestern Entertainment Law School Legal Clinic for emerging filmmakers in LA. Currently, Robert is developing "North Star," a feature film surrounding the period of his life when he lived abroad in Singapore and began training in Muay Thai and mixed martial arts.