BitterSweet
A feature film from Steven Martini, now available to watch on Tubi.
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Actor · Writer · Director
STEVEN
MARTINI
Stories about outsiders, families, second chances, and people attempting things they probably shouldn't.
Selected Work
On screen, behind the camera, and sometimes both.
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Major Payne
As Cadet Alex Stone in the 1995 classic military comedy.
Lymelife
Based on my brother's and my childhood, Lymelife was developed through the Sundance Institute's Labs. Rory Culkin portrays a fictionalized version of my younger self, adding another personal connection to the film, as I grew up attending school with the Culkins. My brother and I shared the creative responsibilities in the tradition of the early Coen brothers, with him credited as director and me as producer. I also composed the original score.
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Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire
My first screenplay and my first independent film. The film that started my journey as a writer and filmmaker.
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Selected completed screenplays.
Captain Mercer
Feature screenplay · Completed
When a wounded war hero can't adjust to retirement, he builds a boot camp to regain control—only to be pulled into a crisis that forces him to confront the thin line between discipline and damage.
Wright Bros:
Fight for Flight
Feature screenplay · Completed
The story of two brothers whose determination to fly changed the world.
The Night Guard
Feature screenplay · Completed
A middle-aged vampire DJ with a teeth-grinding problem seeks a witch who can free him from his maker.
Aging Astronaut
Sci-fi comedy · Feature screenplay · Completed
An aging astronaut and a conspiracy theorist are recruited by a billionaire to test an experimental AI-powered mission to the Moon. But what awaits them there challenges everything they believe about space exploration.
The Book of J
Coming-of-age adventure · Feature screenplay · Completed
A precocious, religiously devoted teenager must drive his dying grandmother from New Mexico to her hometown in Mexico, where she believes a prophecy foretells the arrival of a new messiah.
Television Writing
Staff writer credits.
Flash Gordon
Television series · Staff Writer
South Beach
Television series · Staff Writer
In front of the camera
Acting
From his role as Cadet Alex Stone in Major Payne to his work writing, producing, and composing for independent films including Lymelife, Steven Martini has built a career working on both sides of the camera.
The story
A life in stories.
Steven Martini is an actor, writer, and director whose work includes Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire, Lymelife, and BitterSweet. He has also served as a staff writer on the television series Flash Gordon and South Beach. His stories often explore family, ambition, outsiders, and the strange things people do in pursuit of happiness.
Get in touch
Let's make
something.
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