Brett Marty

Brett Marty cut his teeth as a commercial director and transitioned to filmmaking with documentary projects. His narrative directorial debut, Youth, won jury awards and played at more than 30 festivals, including Cannes. His latest docs have been commissioned or featured by Patagonia, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and National Geographic. Marty directed Save the Hearts (Mountainfilm 2019). In Eco-Hack! (Mountainfilm 2022), Marty and co-director Josh Izenberg wage a tech war against the overpopulation of ravens in hopes of saving the dramatically diminishing population of Mojave Desert tortoises. Eco-Hack! received a Mountainfilm Commitment Grant in 2020 and won Best Short Documentary at Hot Docs, Palm Springs and Interfilm Berlin. Marty is the co-director of Plant Life (Mountainfilm 2026), alongside Josh Izenberg. In previous lives, Marty studied ceramic sculpture at UC Berkeley, drove an old Buick from San Francisco to Argentina and helped Nate Silver launch FiveThirtyEight in 2008.