Julia Marques is a PhD student in Media Arts at the Beira Interior University, with emphasis on women's cinema, self-representation in cinema, peripheral and post-colonial cinemas (2020-). Research fellow in the project "SPECULUM – Filming and looking at oneself in the mirror: the self-writing use by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers", she was part of the pre-selection jury at the V Porto Femme International Film Festival (2022) and worked with Digital Marketing and Online Business Advertising (2021-2022). She was Substitute Professor of the Advertising and Publicity course at the Sergipe Federal University (UFS) (2018-2020), where she taught subjects such as Audio-visual Language II, Audio-visual Production II, and Graphic Production. A Master in Cinema and Social Narratives at the Sergipe Federal University (PPGCINE) (UFS), with research in the fields of postcolonial feminism and ethnography, she held a CAPES scholarship during the development of her master's degree (2016-2018). She worked in NGO conducting arts workshops, film clubs and audio-visual documentaries among peasant populations (2014-2017).
Graduated in Cinema and Video by the Paraná Arts Faculty (CINETVPR), Paraná State University (Unerspar) (2009- 2013), she held a scholarship of Scientific Initiation of Araucária Foundation (2009-2011) during her graduation. She has directed fiction, experimental and documentary films with emphasis on screenwriting, direction, photography, and editing. She started her studies in canvas painting in 2004 and in photography in 2007, shooting her first short film financed by the Aracaju City Hall in 2007. She has published articles and book chapters, as well as held mediations, lectures and oral communications in events discussing themes related to women's cinema, author's cinema, and counter-hegemonic cinema.
