Victoria DeMartin
The Fort Myers Film Festival runs April 10-14 this year. Among the dozens of short films it will show during this time is Skindiving by writer/director Victoria DeMartin, which was released on December 30, 2018.
Victoria is a writer/director from New York with a BFA in Film Production from the Film Conservatory at Purchase College. During her tenure at Purchase, Victoria wrote, directed, edited, and produced three short thesis films (Knick-Knacks, Winter Rye and Round Trip), each of which screened at festivals nationwide, including one airing on PBS-KVCR in 2015. She also wrote, directed and produced 
Pas de Deux in 2011.
She has worked in various departments on series such as Showtime Network’s Billions (for which she was a post-production assistant on 23 episodes), NBC’s The Blacklist, and upcoming limited series The Spy for Netflix. In addition to writing, directing and producing, Victoria has worked as an editor, assistant director, production designer (Knick-Knacks, Winter Rye, Don’t Fall, Lovesick and The Rest) cinematographer, sound editor, boom operator, location manager and set dresser (Loserville).
Victoria plans to continue her own storytelling via feature films and episodic TV.
April 2, 2019.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.