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Bio

Marga Varea is the founder of Twin Seas Media, a Boston-based impact distribution boutique agency working with documentary films and documentary film festivals. With over twenty years of experience in film and television, Marga has a deep understanding of the industry and believes in the power of storytelling to engage, educate and transform.

Marga has worked with dozens of documentary films and film festivals over the years in a variety of positions from screenwriter and script consultant to line and consulting producer. For the past decade, she has designed and led many exciting impact campaigns for films such as: TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH (2008, official SUNDANCE selection and PBS/POV), REBEL (2014), 1913 SEEDS OF CONFLICT (2015), I KNOW A MAN… ASHLEY BRYAN (2015), J. FRED WOELL: AN AMERICAN VISION (2016), HEALTH UNDOCUMENTED (2017) LOBSTER WAR (2018), OUR FLAG WILL NEVER BE RED (2019), ACTIVIZED (2019), BADMOM (2020), A RECKONING IN BOSTON (2020), BATTLEGROUND (2020) and AGUILUCHO: DANCE OF THE HARPY EAGLE (2021).

Since 2016, she is the outreach and engagement director for Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium, a unique industry gathering that every October brings to DC the best investigative documentaries of the year along with a pitch forum, a legal clinic and one-on-one networking opportunities for filmmakers.

Before relocating to the United States, Marga lived in Madrid, Spain, where she worked on national television, co-founded a successful production and communications agency, Great Ways, worked as a scriptwriter for several short films and one narrative feature, and taught screenwriting courses at a film school, Metropolis. During that time, Marga was the line producer of a student Emmy-award winning short film, DOS.

Marga earned her Master’s degree in Journalism and Media Studies from Complutense University, Madrid, Spain; and completed a Film Conservation Ph.D program. She has two amazing kids.