Bio
Marga Varea is the founder of Twin Seas Media, a Boston-based boutique outreach and distribution agency working with independent documentary films and film festivals. With over twenty years of experience in the film and television industries, Marga has a deep understanding of the filmmaking process from concept to distribution and a deep love for non-fiction.
Marga develops creative, transparent outreach and distribution campaigns that raise the visibility of independent documentary films and extend their life through creative strategies that work. Campaigns are customized to each film and design to engage wide, diverse audiences across the country and internationally.
Past and recent projects include TRACES OF THE TRADE, dir. Katrina Browne (SUNDANCE & POV), REBEL, dir. Maria Agui Carter, 1913 SEEDS OF CONFLICT, dir. Ben Loeterman, I KNOW A MAN… ASHLEY BRYAN, dir. Richard Kane, LOBSTER WAR, dirs. David Abel and Andy Laub, A RECKONING IN BOSTON, dir. James Rutenbeck (PBS/Independent Lens), PONY BOYS, dir. Eric Stange (New York Times Op-Docs), OUR AMERICAN FAMILY, dir. Hallee Adelman, ITHAKA, dir. Ben Lawrence, IN THE WHALE, dir. David Abel, INUNDATION DISTRICT, dir. David Abel (PBS World Channel), UNTIL HE'S BACK, dir. Jacqueline Baylon (POV Shorts), INHERITANCE, dirs. Mat Moyer and Amy Toensing, ANYUKA, dir. Maya Erdelyi, and others.
Some of the film festivals she has worked with include DC/DOX, Cortogenia, German Film Festival in Madrid, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital “on tour” Boston and Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium, where she build their audience engagement strategy for seven years.
Before coming to the United States, Marga lived in Madrid, Spain, where she worked on several award-winning fiction national television series, co-founded a hugely successful production and communications agency, Great Ways, wrote scripts for several short films, and taught screenwriting classes at a local 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.