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Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin co-directed the sports documentary Undefeated in 2011, and their Berlin Film Festival Special Gala, Tina, could have shared the same title. While this is set in the world of music, its emphasis is on the resilience, survival and comeback of its subject, singer Tina Turner. Featuring a…

Tucked away in the Hollywood hills, Apple created a makeshift production studio where it worked side-by-side with aspiring filmmakers to help them realize their visions. Apple selected three teams of young filmmakers for a month-long workshop that connected the students with Apple’s professionals with creative talent…

EXCLUSIVE: T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay, the duo whose sports documentary, Undefeated, won the 2012 Oscar for or Best Documentary Feature, has signed with CAA. The Oscar win made Martin the first director of African-American descent to win for a feature-length film. In addition, Martin and Lindsay’s doc LA 92, which…

The 25th anniversary of the civil unrest that erupted in Los Angeles prompted the release of four highly-praised documentaries on those devastating events, but only one of them would go on to make the Oscar documentary shortlist this year. That distinction belongs to LA 92 from directors Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, the…

On March 3, 1991, Los Angeles resident Rodney King was brutally beaten by four LAPD officers, an incident that was caught on tape and spread like wildfire. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon and use of excessive force, three of the four officers were acquitted of all charges, setting off days of outright…