Marta Cunningham

Marta Cunningham is an Emmy nominated American film director, writer, producer and advocate. Her first feature, the documentary Valentine Road, was acquired by HBO documentaries and premiered to great acclaim at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film was received as: “One of the most subtle meditations on class, race, and systemic institutional prejudice you could hope to watch… The closet equivalent in terms of social commentary and nuanced story-telling I can think of is The Wire.” Cunningham spent 2013 traveling with Valentine Road to festivals around the world including Sheffield Doc/Fest and Madrid Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and has won multiple awards including Outstanding Documentary for Frameline37 Film Festival and Outstanding Feature film for NewFest Film Festival 2013. She is much in demand as a speaker on social justice issues, and has spoken at Princeton, South Arts: Southern Circuit, and the 9th Annual Youth Court Summit. She was invited to speak at the TEDx Olympic women event in 2014 where she highlighted the need for community among women filmmakers.