Tomás Paula Marques

Tomás Paula Marques (she/they, b.1994) is a portuguese filmmaker from Porto. Having completed a postgraduate degree in Filmmaking at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián), she previously did a postgraduate degree in Sociology at ISCTE (Lisbon), and was originally trained in Directing and Cinematography at The Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Paula Marques directed the films IN CASE OF FIRE (2019), BLINDMAN’S BUFF (2021) and DILDOTECTONICS (2023). The characters in her films tend to face difficulties when questioning or breaking expectations of gender and sexuality. These themes are informed by her lived experience and by a historical and sociological research, which is part of her practice.

Her work has been shown in several festivals and screenings, including Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives and New York Film Festival (USA), BFI Flare (UK), Curtas Vila do Conde and IndieLisboa (Portugal), Go Short (Netherlands), Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Germany), Curta Cinema e Olhar de Cinema (Brazil), San Sebastián International Film Festival (Spain), Viennale (Austria), Visions du Réel (Switzerland), among many others, earning several awards. Paula Marques often collaborates with other visual artists and she has also worked as a cinematographer (ex: with Matías Piñeiro and Bruno Abib), editor (ex: with Cristiana Cruz Forte and João Pedro Rodrigues) and script supervisor (ex: with Alexander David and Isadora Neves Marques).

Filmography

[2023] Dildotectonics (short)
[2022] When We Dead Awaken (short)
[2021] Blindman's Buff (short)
[2019] In Case of Fire (short) - school film
[2016] Barehanded (short) - school film