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Martin Wallace
Martin graduated in 1991 with a BA honours in Fine Art Film and Video from St Martins School of Art. His graduation film Carrera was bought by Channel Four’s ‘First Frame’ series. After making a number of groundbreaking music promos for bands such as Aphex Twin, Pulp, Tindersticks Polyphonic Spree among others, he produced and directed 3 x 1hr programmes for Channel Four, Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker. In 1999, Martin directed several series of Wise Up on C4 for Carlton, which won an International Emmy and was nominated for a BAFTA for Children’s Factual TV. His short film about the abduction and murder of James Bulger, Liverpool Lullaby in 1995 won an RTS North West Award for Most Innovative Film. He has written several short dramas, including Flip Flop for Film Four and Rhythms for Channel Four, and is currently working on several features including Frozen Ed, a twisted comedy about a bloke who donates his body to science only to wake up ten years after his death as a decapitated head - the world’s first cryogenically reanimated superstar.