Martine N. Granby is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut, with a focus on documentary filmmaking. She holds a joint appointment in the Africana Studies Institute and is an affiliate of UConn’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.
As a filmmaker with a background in visual journalism, Granby produces films that weave between documentary, experimental non-fiction, hybrid, and essay forms. Her research focuses on interrogations of and material experimentation with family and collective moving image archives, ethical considerations of found footage usage, discourses around mental health in BIPOC communities, and the narrative residues of pop culture in personal memories/viewership.
Granby’s teaching focuses on technical film training and observational critique pulling from diverse film, video, journalistic, and media arts samplings that include but go beyond the traditional canon.
She has worked as a documentarian, producer, editor, video journalist, and educator for The New York Times, Kartemquin Films, The New School, University of Virginia’s Religion, Race & Democracy Lab, City Bureau, Marfa Public Radio, BRIC TV, UnionDocs, Global Girl Media, Brooklyn Public Library and Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies - where she co-developed the DocX Archive Lab, How Are We Known?: Reimagining, Repurposing, and Rewriting the Archive.
As a producer with the Brooklyn-based BRIC TV, Granby co-directed and produced NO SIREN LEFT BEHIND (2022), which premiered at The 40th edition of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival and screened at Newark LGBTQ Film Festival, Centre Film Festival, and Out On Film: Atlanta's LGBTQ Film Festival.
She started production on her current feature film, TEN SECONDS OF SUGAR, as a fellow with Kartemquin Films’ Diverse Voices in Docs program. The film is a triptych portrait personal essay unveiling intergenerational care and the systemic barriers Black women face while seeking mental health resources. Independent Television Service® Diversity Development Fund currently supports the film.
Martine attended Mount Holyoke College, receiving her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Film Studies. In addition, she earned an M.A. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and is a proud Brown Girls Doc Mafia member.