Brett Marty began his career as a commercial director before transitioning into filmmaking with several documentary projects and his narrative directorial debut, YOUTH, which won multiple jury awards and screened at more than 30 festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival. His recent documentary work has been commissioned or featured by Patagonia, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Geographic.
Before filmmaking, he studied ceramic sculpture at University of California, Berkeley, drove from San Francisco to Argentina in an old Buick, and helped Nate Silver launch FiveThirtyEight in 2008. His recent work includes GAME HAWKER (2022) for Patagonia Films and ECO-HACK!, which won Best Short Documentary awards at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, and Interfilm Berlin, and premiered with The New Yorker in 2023.