Talent Guide

Marcia Nunes

  • Discipline:Director, Producer, Writer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2015, Grants and Awards 2013, Grants and Awards 2015, Producing Lab 2012

Bio

Marcia Nunes has just finished producing her first feature, Manos Sucias, winner of the Best New Narrative Director and 2nd place Audience Awards at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, the Film Independent Canon Camera Grant and two SFFS/KRS Filmmaking grants, and for which she became a Film Independent Producing Fellow in 2012. Previously, she was associate producer on Reaching For the Moon, directed by Academy Award nominated Bruno Barreto and starring Miranda Otto, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013; and was also the production coordinator for the Academy Award nominated documentary, Restrepo. Nunes holds a Master’s degree in Film Business from New York University, and has worked in international sales, closing distribution deals for independent films; and in digital entertainment, where she currently manages Google’s Play store in Latin America. Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French, Nunes has lived across South and North America. Her goal is to produce feature films that bring different cultures together.

Current Project

Dark Forest

Logline

A hipster-millennial, equally versed in neuroscience and party drugs, steps out of her depth into the complex and psychedelic world of Amazonian shamanism.