Marina Weis
filmmaker❘DOP camera❘editor
ABOUT
FILMMAKER CINEMATOGRAPHER EDITOR
Creative film producer, cinematographer and editor with 20 + years of experience in producing, directing, photographing and editing feature films, documentaries, reports and videos. Expert in managing film and video projects from concept to completion for various formats and platforms.
Marina Dias Weis is a filmmaker, art educator, social worker, urban gardner and mother. Her film projects focus on cinematic language experimentation, social-environmental justice, historic memory and ecofeminism. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Marina has a Bachelor in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Direction of Photography from the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and Television School (EICTV) in Havana, Cuba. From her anthropological research to the present day, Marina has worked with different communities and their allies, researching, filming and giving workshops in various territories in Brazil and abroad. Over the last decade, she has been documenting stories that have been silenced in the construction of collective memory. The result is serie "The Dangerous Memory" and the film "The Wind Blows the Border“, co-directed with Laura Faerman, winner of a dozen national and international awards.
Living between Berlin and São Paulo, Marina speaks 4 languages and makes films and videos around the world.