Mariana Silva (Porto, Portugal, 2002) was interested in the arts, especially audiovisual arts, from an early age, completing a professional course of it, which opened the door to an internships and a degree in cinema at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University. This helped in the preparation of several cinematographic projects, including: fictional, documentary, experimental, audiovisual essays, among others. More recently, Mariana was part of the production and directing of the documentary "Panem Aurorae"; doing the cinematography and coloring, having been selected in several film festivals, both nationally and internationally. She was also part of the creation of the experimental short film "POST HUMAN"; where her poster was nominated at Sophia Student 2023. Her most recent project is the fictional film "There Are Monsters in the Dark" which is being distributed at film festivals at the moment, she was the assistant director and editor of the film.