Martina Attille

Martina Attille, also known as Judah Attille (born 1959), is a British filmmaker and contemporary artist. In 1983, she was a founding member of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, together with Isaac Julien, Maureen Blackwood, Nadine Marsh-Edwards and Robert Crusz, an initiative "dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience". Attille wrote and directed Dreaming Rivers, a 1988 film that "illustrates the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration", and which was an award winner at the Mannheim Film Festival.

Biography Martina Attille was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the eastern Caribbean, in 1959,

She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she produced her first film, By Any Other Name, in 1983, also the year in which year she graduated. She went on to begin a career in the media industry that included working on three programmes for Visions, a Channel Four documentary series on world cinema. Her writer/director debut, Dreaming Rivers, was a seminal work for Sankofa, with a cast that included Corinne Skinner Carter, Angela Wynter, Nimmy March and Stefan Kalipha, a film score by Shirley Thompson and set design by Sonia Boyce.