Martina Reese
Directing
Biography
Writer-director Martina Reese is known for two feature-length films, Zombie (2021) and Exile (2022). Exile received the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2022 Polish International Film Festival. Her short films have received official selection status at international festivals, including Pity (2019 Malta Film Festival), Slow Me Down (2019 French Independent Film Festival, 2022 Golden Bridge Istanbul Festival), and The Librarians (2022 Paris Short Film Festival - Best Comedy Short Film: Festival Director's Award, Audience Award).
Known For
Kris, an undocumented Polish immigrant laborer in Chicago, meets a successful American film director. His bold and possibly futile attempt to revive his abandoned acting career is derailed when a family crisis erupts back home in Poland.
Exile
Twenty-something Adele is haunted and hunted by zombies. She desperately seeks help--from her friends, her therapist, her mother--but no one hears or believes her. In Adele's lonely struggle to fend off her zombie stalkers, what will she do in order to survive?