Darnell Martin Biography

Fast Facts

• Won The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director for her film "I Like It Like That" in 1994
• Served on the dramatic jury at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival
• Attended Sarah Lawrence College before moving on to the New York University Film School
• Worked in film labs and camera rental houses, tended bar and made music videos and short films early in her career
• Became the first African-American woman to direct and produce a movie produced by a major studio when Columbia Pictures released her romantic comedy-drama "I Like it Like That" in 1994
• Wrote the first draft of "I Like It Like That" while she was attending college and working odd jobs
• When she was a child, she was caught on an episode of Candid Camera in which she refused to sell her dog