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MARTA ZE        resume            marta@spookyfilms.com

Marta was born in Bogotá Colombia, raised in New York
and New Orleans.

She's been a photojournalist, traveling to Russia, Mexico,
Peru, Colombia, and Europe.
Her photos have shown in galleries and museums
throughout the world, including her photo essay on a charity
mental hospital in Colombia.

Marta has been a photographer on films that starred actors
such as Nicolas Cage, John Savage, and Martin Sheen.

Then writing became Marta's primary obsession, overriding her love of photography.
On her return to New Orleans, she began a writing and directing collaboration with
Tom Murphy. Their videos, shown at film festivals in New Orleans, New York and Los
Angeles, tackled sensitive subjects. They won praise, awards, and sometimes, controversy.
Marta was awarded a grant from Novac to produce her 20-minute Surreal Documentary,
Disposable Income, loosely-based on Aileen Wuornos, the first female serial killer
executed in the U.S.

She and Tom were chosen as part of The Top Fifty to Watch by New Orleans Magazine,
and were featured on the cover.

After moving to Los Angeles, Marta was chosen for the WGA Writing Program, a paid
internship with the writers at Star Trek Voyager. She was thrown in the midst of highly-
creative people constantly brainstorming- it was the most fun she's ever had at a day
job.

In 2001, her screenplay, The Vatican Ratline, (about the Vatican/Nazi collaboration in post-
World War II) was a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Writers Project and in the Academy
of Arts and Sciences' prestigious Nicholl Fellowship.

An early draft of her horror novel, Bloodline, (the coming-of-age story of a girl and her
dysfunctional werewolf family) was a quarter-finalist in the Chesterfield Writers Project.

In 2002, she was awarded a Paul Verhoeven Scholarship and a Women in Film / Universal
Studios Mentor Scholarship for the Feature Film Development Program of the Los Angeles
Film School.

Marta lives in Los Angeles, and loves it. She's presently working on The Dream Machine,
a supernatural screenplay about time travel and soul transference in Hollywood.