Emiel Martens
Emiel Martens is a Dutch film scholar-practitioner focusing on the interconnections between film, tourism, and empire in the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on Jamaica. He is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam and currently serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, where he is, alongside several articles, working on the documentary series Film Location Jamaica and the short film Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline. Martens is also the Co-Founding Director of the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HUCOM) and Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage, and Tourism (FIHETO), as well as the Founding Director of Caribbean Creativity, a non-profit organization dedicated to the programming and promotion of Caribbean cinema in the Netherlands.