Name : Martin Schliessmann
Website : www.WhySturgis.com

Almost 20 years of graphic design, advertising, marketing and audiovisual experience. An award-winning, self-employed "creative communications consultant," Martin produces marketing collateral in print and broadcast media for national clients. A native of Indianapolis, Martin resides with his wife in Mishawaka, Indiana.

Escape Route Flix, LLC was created with partner John Brune as a means to produce stories that others have not considered. "Why Sturgis?" is their first collaboration in documentary and full length feature production.

Martin is currently lining up future documentary and fiction projects to follow up the successful "Why Sturgis?" documentary. (Consider it pre-pre-production!)

"Why Sturgis?" is a blueprint for the kind of storytelling that Martin and John would like to continue. Stories that may have been overlooked because you think you know the outcome. Stories from America's heartland that refute misconceptions of "flyover country." Stories only discovered by leaving the main highways and instead visit the back roads of America.

"When you re-examine everyday situations, and view them differently from the normal cliches, you create your own Escape Route."