Marta Torres is a Brazilian director, actress, producer, writer, and photographer, with acting experience in Brazil, United States and Germany. She developed acting studies in Brazil and she was assistant of physical theatre workshops in Europe, adding this experience to her cinema studies in Cinema Darcy Ribeiro School in Rio de Janeiro, Ivana Chubbuck's method in Los Angeles, among others. Her first independent short film is receiving awards all over the world, specially in the best experimental category. She is also a human rights teacher and she worked as a Public Defender (Bahia's Government Lawyer) for many years before being an independent film maker.