Marie Jamora

Born and raised in Manila, Marie Jamora was the Producer/Director on the UNT. AVA DUVERNAY PROJECT for Starz. Marie recently directed an episode of the MATLOCK reboot starring Academy Award and Emmy winner Kathy Bates, as well as GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES for Paramount+. Her short film, FLIP THE RECORD, won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at Urbanworld and was shortlisted for the 90th Academy Awards. Her other short film HARANA was made at AFI's Directing Workshop for Women and won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Narrative Short at the Sarasota Film Festival. Her first feature, WHAT ISN'T THERE (ANG NAWAWALA), premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and is considered a cult classic coming of age film in the Philippines. Her TV directing credits include QUEEN SUGAR (OWN), THE CLEANING LADY (FOX), ALL RISE (OWN), THE RESIDENT (FOX), and both seasons of FIRE COUNTRY (CBS).

She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Film, where she learned Directing the Actor from director/author Lenore DeKoven and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Marie was Adjunct Directing Faculty for eight years in the Philippines and for three years at the American Film Institute. She is one of the leaders of the DGA’s Women’s Steering Committee’s Squad Mentorship program, the founder of Cinema Sala, her non-profit community organization, and proudly one of the few Filipinos in the Director’s Guild of America.