A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Margarita Varea
Marga Varea is the founder of Twin Seas Media, a Boston-based impact distribution boutique agency working with documentary films and documentary film festivals. With over twenty years of experience in film and television, Marga has a deep understanding of the industry and believes in the power of storytelling to engage, educate and transform. Marga has worked with dozens of documentary films and film festivals over the years in a variety of positions from screenwriter and script consultant to line and consulting producer. For the past decade, she has designed and led many exciting impact campaigns for films such as: Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (2008, official SUNDANCE selection and PBS/POV), 1913 Seeds of Conflict (2015), I Know a Man… Ashley Bryan (2015), Lobster War (2018) Activized (2019) and A Reckoning in Boston (2020). Marga has also worked with a variety of film festivals internationally. Since 2016, she is the outreach and engagement director for Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium, a unique industry gathering that every October brings to DC the best investigative documentaries of the year along with a pitch forum and a wealth of opportunities for filmmakers. Before relocating to the United States, Marga lived in Madrid, Spain, where she worked on national television, co-founded a successful production and communications agency, worked as a screenwriter and screenwriting teacher at a local film school, Metropolis. During that time, Marga was the line producer of a student Emmy-award winning short film, Dos.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.