Welcome to the official blog of Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood

Mardik Martin is one of American Cinema’s most important screenwriters — and least known. Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood traces his unlikely journey from Iraq to America, and chronicles his friendship with Martin Scorsese; one that began at New York University in the 1960s and resulted in some of the greatest films in American Cinema (Mean Streets, New York, New York, and Raging Bull). The film also details his harrowing rise and fall from Hollywood’s echelon. Mardik is a modern-day fable about reaching for your dreams and finding redemption in the end, while offering an intimate portrait of an often forgotten character in Hollywood’s pantheon...the screenwriter.