Martin J. Spinelli
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Martin Spinelli has been a producer, director, and writer of documentary and communications programs since 1967. He began his career making television public affairs programs at Philadelphia's ABC-TV affiliate, where his documentaries won an Emmy, First Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival, the Ohio State Award, and several other awards. He also worked with NBC/WRC, in Washington, D.C. His previous documentaries reflect his interest in outstanding individuals.
Spinelli's experience includes video, film, and the new multimedia presentation formats, and his work has won many corporate communications awards: New York Film & TV Festival, Chicago Film Festival, CINE, and the AT&T Arthur W. Page Awards. He formed Interaction Media, in 1984, when interactive multimedia was a gleam in the eye of the Bell Laboratories' engineers for whom he developed programs to convey the future of communications. He has produced demonstration presentations for IBM and AT&T, and touchscreen programs that describe telecommunications software.
His "Life on Jupiter" won an EMMY for Programming in the Arts and a nomination for the Directors Guild Documentary Award.
Most recently he has made a sequel called A Coda for Jupiter which is available on line as part of The Jens Nygaard Legacy.
Spinelli is a director-member of the Directors Guild of America.
Spinelli is a director-member of the Directors Guild of America.