Ann Marie Martin is a writer and director based in New York City. Her work finds beauty within the decay, using the macabre to reveal the unspoken truths of the human experience. Vena Sewn In embodies this sensibility: boundaries between art, anatomy, and obsession collapse into a vampiric tale where blood becomes textile, veins become embroidery, and inspiration turns bodily. Ann Marie approaches the body not as spectacle, but as terrain—something to be mapped, stitched, desired, and misunderstood. Across her work, she is drawn to enclosed spaces, charged silences, and women negotiating power within systems of devotion and control. Influenced by gothic literature’s fixation on the haunting and the repressed, as well as the mythic roots of folklore—she crafts character-driven narratives that feel ritualistic and visceral. Whether on film or on the page, her storytelling is tactile and atmospheric, grounded in precision and emotional intensity.

Ann Marie is completing her final term in Film & Television at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work has earned over 20 awards and festival placements, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Student Director at the New York International Film Awards (2024) for her short film Baptism (2023). Her short film Wet Specimen (2025) is currently a Finalist in the Undergraduate Narrative Short Film category at the Fusion Film Festival (2026). Her feature screenplay Vena Sewn In was recognized as a dual-category Semifinalist (Drama and Horror) at the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition (2025). She has recently completed production on her thesis short film, The Color of Rotting, and is currently in post-production, with a planned festival run beginning in June 2026.

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