Just as its infamous Wall was being smashed in 1989, Berlin native Martin Weisz was laying the foundation for a celebrated career as a music video and commercial director. More than a decade later he has built a reputation as one of Germany’s top visionaries, a maverick who has created stunning work for a range of artists and advertisers, and the recipient of myriad honors including nominations for the 1999 MVPA Awards for best Dance Video for Members of Mayday “Sonic Empire,” for Best Feature Film for the X-Files for Filter’s “One,” and for Best International Video for LL Cool J’s video for “Dear Malika”. Martin won the MTV European Video Award for Best Dance Video for Members of Mayday. Due to the huge success of one of his first videos for Fury In The Slaughterhouse, the band decided to use video-images for the LP cover, in turn the band asked Martin to design a Coca-Cola can in their name for the Nordoff/Robbins Foundation. The Coca-Cola design sold the most cans in comparison to any other design: 10,000,000. Martin was also nominated for Best Rock Video for Korn “Make Me Bad” at the 2000 MTV Europe Awards.

Demonstrating his technical abilities, he has taken the “slice of life” or “Frozen Moment” technique and raised it a few notches by using fifteen 35mm cameras, set in a semi-circle on a rig that booms and dollies. The result is an ultra-high-concept performance video, “You Are Everything,” from Dru Hill (featuring Ja-Rule). Martin enhanced the technique further by using thirty 35 mm cameras, giving Puff Daddy a suspended, three-dimensional, dance spin with a matrix twist for “Public Enemy #1”.

Martin Weisz has shot music videos for such artists as Brandy, Puff Daddy, Korn, Live, Crazytown, Sisqo, Nickelback, Fuel, Mel B, JC Chasez and numerous others. By 2006, alongside dozens of commercials, he had directed more than 350 music videos.

Martin Weisz's first feature film was the controversial Grimm Love (Rohtenburg) starring Keri Russell and Thomas Kretschmann. The movie got banned in Germany due to its subject matter, but went on to win numerous awards the same year it got banned. Martin won Best Director with Grimm Love at the prestigious Sitges Fantasy Film Festival in 2006. His second feature, is The Hills Have Eyes II, scheduled for release in March 2007.

Martin is currently developing two feature film projects to shoot in 2007 and 2008 with his own developing company Weird Pictures. He is represented for feature film work by Endeavor Talent Agency and managed by Doreen Wilcox at Anonymous Management.