Marina Thomé is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Portugal and Brazil. Marina works as a director, researcher, and editor for multimedia platforms and experiments with portraits, archives, and soundscapes. Her films have been presented in festivals in France, USA, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Colombia, and elsewhere, including the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York and Festival Biarritz Latin America in France. She is the co-founder of Estúdio CRUA, an award-winning production company that connects new media and social impact. They produced the Hackathon Webdoc Project, involving over 100 participants in workshops on creating collaborative multi-platform documentaries. Marina holds masters degrees in Creative Documentary (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and in Communication, Art & Technology (Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo). She studied photojournalism and storytelling at the International Center of Photography (New York) and has taught multiplatform storytelling at art institutions in Brazil, Portugal, and Spain.

From 2023 to 2025 she led Arché, a creative development hub for Ibero-American film professionals, hosted at the Doclisboa and Porto/Post/Doc Festivals. Currently serving as Head of Industry and Development at DocLisboa, she was also on the jury of the 2025 IDA Documentary Awards and showcased video installations in museums across Brazil, Spain, and Portugal, including Lisbon’s Museum of Natural History, Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Centre (Azores) and the Museum of the University of Alicante (Spain).