Amani Martin is a multiple Emmy-Award-winning executive producer and director, and founder of Peaceful Warrior Productions, a New York based television and digital media production company. Peaceful Warrior specializes in non-fiction programming for all platforms, and branded content for major corporations, educational institutions and non-profits.  

Martin was creator and Co-Executive Producer of The Agent, a 2015 docu-series about NFL agents for NBC’s Esquire Network.  In 2015, he also produced Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion for BET Networks, a winner of the NAACP Image Award for outstanding television documentary.

In 2014, to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil, Xbox Entertainment Studios hired Martin to direct Every Street United, the platform’s first-ever original documentary project.  For the international soccer series, Martin directed episodes set in England, Spain, Holland and Ghana.  

Martin has also produced and directed numerous films for ESPN’s Peabody and Emmy-winning 30 for 30 series, including Benji, a documentary exploring the tragic 1984 death of Ben Wilson, an iconic Chicago high school basketball star. Benji was an official selection of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

Prior to founding Peaceful Warrior, Martin was a Director of Production at HBO where he won multiple Emmys as a producer and director, including a 2008 Emmy for Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush.  He was also a senior producer for HBO’s acclaimed news magazine show, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.

Martin is a member of the Production Executives group of the Television Academy (Emmys), and the Directors Guild of America. Based in Brooklyn, New York, he also serves as a board member of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation.