Denver filmmaker Jonathan Martin will release his first full-length film this year,
The Confrontation Project, a look at the heated relationship between African-Americans and the police told through rhyming dialogue. It s his most ambitious project yet.
Martin got his start dabbling in video when he was playing college football at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley. He dug up a video camera from the basement of a house he rented and started writing and recording comedic shorts and sketches.
“I called them
Chronicles of Boredom. It was like a poor college kid s version of
Key & Peele,” Martin recalls. “My teammates and other students started to watch them, so I kept making more and more. My skills barely got better, and the videos got more complex.”