William Martens

Emmy nominated for his work with National Geographic Television, Bill has written, produced, and directed award-winning docudrama, documentary, TV movie, and reality television specials and series as well as festival-winning social consciousness short films and PSAs. During Covid, Bill ventured back into visual effects, joining the CBS series "FBI: International" as its VFX Producer for Season 1 and continued in that role through Seasons 2, 3, and 4. In 2019 and 2020, Bill wrote, produced, and directed episodes for Seasons 14 and 15 of History Channel's long-running series "Ancient Aliens" and contributed as a field producer to numerous episodes in Seasons 19 and 20. Of the close to 200 episodes that have aired in 120 countries since 2009, the 4 episodes Bill developed and saw through from start-to-finish consistently rank in IMDb's Top 25 All-Time for the series. In consecutive years (2019 and 2020) two of Bill's short films won The Animal Film Festival, while also garnering two Gold Telly Awards. In addition to his 25+ years in film and television, in 2007 Bill was selected to the documentary filmmaker chair for a top secret Congressionally funded independent advisory panel for unmanned space launch operations. SLOT's (Space Launch Optimization Team's) 10 chairpersons from various industries operated from August of 2007, delivering their findings and recommendations to United Launch Alliance and NASA in May of 2008. Bill also donates his time as a filmmaker in disaster zones around the world for animal rights and animal welfare causes (for example, post-earthquake Haiti, post-earthquake/tsunami Japan, Uganda, and Rwanda), is a native (born and raised) of Dallas Texas, a NAUI Certified Open Water Scuba Diver, a long-time member of the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and has been a strict vegetarian since 1983.