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A Portuguese filmmaker and teacher living between Porto and Lisbon. She holds a postgraduate degree in film from the Elías Querejeta Zine School in San Sebastián. She previously completed a postgraduate degree in sociology at ISCT, in Lisbon, and holds degrees in directing and cinematography from the Lisbon School of Theater and Cinema. She directed the short films “In Case of Fire” (2019), “Blindman’s Bluff” (2021) and “Dildotectonics” (2023), exploring themes of gender, sexuality and historiography, informed by her lived experience and by historical and sociological research, which is part of her practice. Her work has been shown in several festivals, including San Sebastián, New York, Vienna, IndieLisboa and Visions du Réel. Paula Marques has also worked as a
cinematographer, editor and script supervisor. “Two Times João Liberada” is her first feature film.