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Martin Spottl is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose works include Across the Line , a drama set on the US-Mexico Border, and Stones in my Passway: the Robert Johnson Story, a biopic about blues legend Robert Johnson. [1]

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References

  1. "Film Shorts". The Hollywood Reporter . May 3, 1999.