ISADORA NEVES MARQUES is a film director, visual artist and writer, born in Lisbon, Portugal. They live and work between Oxford and Hong Kong.
Their short films include My Senses Are All I Have to Offer (2024; 63rd La Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Festival), Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022; IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, winner of Ammodo Tiger Short Award for best short film), The Bite (2019; Wavelenghts - Toronto International Film Festival, awarded best short films prizes at Go Short Nijmegen, Short Waves, Sicilia Queer Festival, MixBrasil, as well as the Kodak Prize at MIEFF), and Exterminator Seed (2017; Indie Lisboa International Film Festival).
They have participated in hundreds of film festivals, including New York Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Winterthur, Berwick, Riga, Glasgow, Vilnius, Hamburg, Melbourne, Panorama, Thelassoniki, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, and European Film Awards. They have had film focuses at Winterthur Short Film Festival (Switzerland), Film Fest Gent (Belgium), HOME (Manchester), e-flux (New York), and Art Basel Hong Kong.
As an artist, they were the Official Portuguese Representation - Portugal Pavilion at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia in 2022, with their pavilion being nominated in the ten must see of that year’s edition by Art News. They were awarded a Pinchuk Future Generation Special Prize in 2022 and the Present Future Art Prize in 2018. Their work has been exhibited in art institutions such as High Line, Renaissance Society, e-flux, Pérez Art Museum of Miami, Museo Reina Sofia, CA2M, CaixaForum, Castello di Rivoli, MADRE, Palais de Tokyo, Frac Île-de-France, Tate Modern, Gasworks, Home Manchester, Beijing Inside Out Museum, Kyoto City University Arts Gallery, and Leeum Museum of Art, among others.
Together with Catarina de Sousa, she founded the film production company Foi Bonita a Festa in 2021.