Audrey Martinez

French born, hailing from the island of New Caledonia, tiny spec of the South Pacific, Audrey roams the world growing up, as a result of her parents' work, and moves to Florida at the age of 9 where she learned English. She returned to New Caledonia in 1994 to finish high school and earn her baccalaureate degree. Following a year of study at Macquarie University in Sydney, Audrey's eagerness to return to the States pushed her to enroll as as a Journalism major at the University of Hawaii. There, she kicked off her professional writing career by working for the college daily newspaper, the Ka Leo O' Hawai'i, regularly publishing feature stories. An avid fan of movies, Audrey quickly tied this inclination in with her writing and founded Ka Leo's movie beat, dedicated to film reviews and coverage of all films shooting on the islands. Worthy of note are her front-page stories on the Pearl Harbor movie press conference where she interviewed Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, and on her vis