After earning a degree in classics and French literature, Marie-Pierre Macia started her career at the Cinémathèque Française and worked at the San Francisco International Film Festival. She also created Agora, the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s industry department. Macia is the former director of Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where she championed the first features by now-acclaimed filmmakers such as Carlos Reygadas, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Daldry, Cristi Puiu, and Cristian Mungiu. Among other films, she produced The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr, Zama by Lucrecia Martel, Memory Exercises and EAMI by Paz Encina, Mariner of the Mountains by Karim Aïnouz, Xenia and DODO by Panos H. Koutras, Ghosts by Azra Deniz Okyay, and Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia