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Martin Desmond Roe is a British-American film and television director, writer, and producer. He is best known for Buzkashi Boys (2012), Kobe Bryant's Muse (2015), Breaking2 (2017), Tom vs Time (2018), and We are the Champions (2020).
Martin Desmond Roe is an Academy Award winning director of the live action short film, Two Distant Strangers. He also wrote the Oscar-Nominated Short, Buzkashi Boys, Executive Produced The Emmy Award-winning Tom vs Time, and directed the Cannes Gold Lions winner BREAKING2.
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Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.
Dec 13, 2023 · Oscar-winning filmmakers Desmond Roe and Travon Free art set to release the graphic novel Black Solstice, published by Dark Horse Comics, building a narrative world around the genesis of a social media joke.
Apr 25, 2021 · Two Distant Strangers directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won their first Oscar for Best Live-Action Short tonight at the 93rd Academy Awards. In his acceptance speech, Free exclaimed...
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Apr 21, 2021 · Last May, he was at work on a screenplay with Martin Desmond Roe, a white British writer and director who has worked in Los Angeles for almost 20 years.
“Two Distant Strangers” directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe turned heads at the 2021 Oscars with their coordinating black and gold suits. But their getups weren’t just about style...
