Biography

Producer and founder of Wise Blue Studios, with venues in Spain and Los Angeles (CA), Nathalie has been working in animation and live-action films and television since 1999. She produced her first feature film in 2003 and never looked back.

Currently producing a variety of projects in different stages of development, she is also co-directing one of the first animated TV shows ever produced in real-time with Unity. The preschool show, Hero Dad, one of the first children's shows based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Harvard's professor Dr. Howard Gardner, has been picked up for global distribution by Wildbrain (former DHX).

Focusing on Nathalie's feature films portfolio, since 2019, she is producing the animated movie MiBots (in pre-production), Wise Blue Studios flagship project, and has come on board on the productorial team for the hybrid feature The Impossible Journey (in development) by producer Gerardo Alvarez at EVIPC.

About to wrap the production of two animated high-end short films, as a producer on The Watchmaker (2019), directed by Maxi Valero, and as a co-producer on Blue & Malone, Imaginary Detectives (2019), directed by Abraham Guerrero; Nathalie's recent finished productions also include the live-action thriller TV series Mass grave (2019) and the animated feature Animal Crackers (2017), an international project featuring the voices of John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Sir Ian McKellen, Danny DeVito, and Sylvester Stallone. After producing the independent feature films Escuchando a Gabriel (2007), Cuatro Estaciones (2010) and El hombre de las mariposas (2011), with success in reviews and awards, Nathalie Martinez directed her career towards the production of animation in a more permanent way.

Born in France, Nathalie moved to Spain, in 1980. She holds a Master's degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat de Valencia; did her post-graduate doctoral studies in Cinema and Education at the Catholic University of Valencia, and most recently received her Executive MBA in International Business from the European University and UC Berkeley (2017).
- IMDb mini biography by: Wise Blue Studios