Marco Martins (1972) studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, having then completed his training in the United States, in script writing, at the Tisch School of Arts. In 1999 he co-founded Ministério dos Filmes, an advertising producer distinguished with several national and international awards and mentions and with whom he debuted in the production of fiction for television with SARA, an eight-episode series set to debut in October 2018, on RTP2. The first two episodes of this series were shown, for the first time, at the IndieLisboa 2018 festival. Marco Martins' work covers several areas including cinema, visual arts and theater. His films have been presented at the main International Festivals, having won the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Festival (Prix Regard Jeune) in 2005 with “Alice”. It was also awarded at festivals such as Mar del Plata, Rotterdam or the London Raindance Film Festival, among other distinctions such as the Fassbinder Award (European Discovery of the Year). In 2006 he made the short film “A Longer Year”, written in partnership with Tonino Guerra, present in the Official Competition at the Venice Film Festival. “São Jorge”, his most recent film, was in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where actor Nuno Lopes won the Golden Lion (Horizons Award) and then debuted commercially in several countries. It was, like “Alice”, pre-selected to compete for the Oscar for best foreign film, and also for the Goya Prize. In Portugal, “São Jorge” was awarded several awards from the Portuguese Society of Authors, including Best Portuguese Film of 2017 and received seven Sophia awards from the Portuguese Cinema Academy. In the field of visual arts, he collaborated with several artists, highlighting the multichannel video installation “Twenty One - The Day the World Didn't End”, co-directed with the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistolletto and exhibited at the Louvre Museum, integrating the retrospective Year One - Earthly Paradise, and also the film “Insert”, co-directed with Portuguese artist Filipa César, a work that won the BES Arte e Finança Award and the Best Director award at the IndieLisboa Festival (2011). In Theater he founded, in 2007, with Beatriz Batarda, the company Arena Ensemble which, since then, has presented shows regularly in the main national theaters. His stage work is divided between classical text work with a strong choreographic component and community projects, as is the case with his latest project, “Provisional Figures Great Yarmouth”, recently premiered at the Norwich & Norfolk Festival.