Independent Writers' Caucus
Miguel Martinez
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I am a Latino disabled writer, director, editor, and producer drawn to stories about monsters, survival, grief, and the strange ways people learn to live with what haunts them. My work includes folk horror, supernatural dramas, disability centered stories, comics, essays, and independent films built from limited resources but big emotional swings. As a filmmaker with epilepsy, I think a lot about bodies that cannot be controlled, fear that lives under the skin, and the power of community when survival is not simple or pretty. My Latino background shapes my love of folklore, family, faith, humor, and inherited ghosts. I am interested in genre as a place where pain can become myth, trauma can become spectacle, and characters who are usually pushed to the margins can take up the whole screen. I tell stories for the people who recognize themselves in the monster. Having lived in New York, Texas and California, I can see many different aspects of our great country and what makes the horror tick for all eyes.
Honors & Awards
Best Horror Film - Golden State Film Festival - WITH YOUR LIFE - 2025
Best First Time Director - Hollywood Blood Horror Fest - LECHUZA - 2025
MIGRANT SPIRITS
Horror - Holes meets The Conjuring
After children disappear from an ominous haunted migrant detention center, a young girl must unravel the mystery or be consumed by the haunting
HUNGER MOON
Horror - Emily the Criminal meets The Fly
When her father is mauled and begins transforming into a werewolf, a teenage girl takes charge of her struggling immigrant family’s food cart, fighting to contain the monster in their basement by night and evading ICE by day.
LECHUZA
Horror - Hereditary meets The Evil Dead
The night before her mother's funeral, a grieving daughter gathers her clueless sisters with a secret plan to resurrect her matriarch. When the spell summons a Lechuza, a vengeful witch of Latin American folklore, the sisters must fight to survive the night.