Paula Tomás Marques (she/they, b.1994) is a portuguese filmmaker and teacher living between Porto and Lisbon. 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), exploring themes of gender, sexuality, layered temporalities and historiography. 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 (Portuga…
