Henry G. Martin

Henry Goule Martin (3 April 1952 – 13 May 2022) was a British independent filmmaker in the 1980s and early 1990s. In addition to directing and producing films, he is known for starting the production company Kuumba in 1982 along with filmmakers Menelik Shabazz and Imruh Bakari, which later led to the founding of the noted Ceddo Film and Video Workshop.

Early life Henry Goule Martin was born at Lewisham Hospital, southeast London on 3 April 1952, to Trinidadian parents Claude and Vida Martin. When Martin was three months old, he returned with his parents to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the films produced by the workshop include Milton Bryan's The People’s Account (1985); Shabazz's Step Forward Youth (1977), Blood Ah Go Run (1982), He would eventually leave filmmaking due to allegations from the film industry that Grove Music supported violent confrontations between the racist police and the Black community.