Marília Rocha

Marília Rocha lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She was one of the founders of the collective Teia, of which she was a member for 10 years, and she’s a partner at Anavilhana Filmes, along with Clarissa Campolina and Luana Melgaço. She directed Aboio (2005), best film at It’s All True festival, Acácio (2008) and A Falta que me faz (2009), best film at São Paulo’s International Latin America Film Festival. Her work has been presented in countless festivals both in Brazil and internationally, having also been shown in museums programs and cineclubs such as MoMA, New Museum and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (USA), Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) and Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel (Switzerland). In 2011, Festival Visions du Réel presented a special showing of her films in Nyon, Switzerland.