CI: A TEDD Talkumentary

Martin Sweeney is a San Francisco-based director, screenwriter and commercial creative director.

He has sold numerous feature screenplays to major studios, worked with comedy royalty Todd Phillips and Ben Stiller, has had at least one awkward conversation with George Lucas and is currently developing a television series that is hilarious and unmarketable.

During the WGA strike of 2008 Martin founded BORRACHO, a creative agency specializing in content, branding, advertising for tech start ups and other young companies.

Martin graduated from with honors from The University of Michigan’s Residential College, where he won hundreds of dollars of prize money from prestigious college writing awards, then moved to New York City to pursue his twin passions of poverty and underemployment.

Martin’s first big film industry break came in 1998 when optioned a script co-written with his sister Marjorie to indie film producing legend Ben Barenholtz. The project’s financing fell apart after a launch party on a yacht in Cannes that Martin was not invited to, an injustice he has been trying to set right for almost 20 years.

Martin studied and performed long form improv comedy at the UCB Theater in New York and the Improv Olympic in Los Angeles. He also wrote, directed and performed in 37 episodes of Behind the Music That Sucks, a 2000 Webby Award winner and the first-ever internet show to cross-over to cable television.

Martin is married to a very lucky woman — not because she’s married to him but because the two of them have the smartest, cutest and most talented child in the universe.