Martyna is currently finishing RETURNED GOODS, a memoir on family estrangement.

After her Polish parents make cruel comments about her young child, a Brooklyn writer resolves to cut ties with them. This decision triggers an emotional breakdown: How can she grieve for her parents when they are still alive? Finding herself incapable of speaking her mother tongue and passing it on to her children, she also questions the core of her identity. By piecing together the shards of her painful family story, she learns how to navigate conflicting feelings and become the loving parent she longed to have.

In 2021, Epiphany Magazine published her story YOUNG CALLER FROM SHEEPSHEAD BAY.
In 2022, she was longlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize.

Her films have been screened at AFI DOCS, Rooftop Films, and One World Film Festival, among others. Her short, ELEVATOR PITCH, was released by Time Magazine and Field of Vision and was nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Short Documentary.

She has received support from the German Academic Exchange Service and the International Women’s Media Fund.

Martyna holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a BFA in Fine Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts.

She loves running in Prospect Park at the crack of dawn before her three kiddos wake up.