Mara Adina is an internationally recognised visual artist and filmmaker whose work spans visual art, film, sound, and immersive installation. Her documentaries have screened widely in cinemas across the world, streamed on platforms including Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max, and been presented at major international festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, London Film Festival, Hot Docs, and DOC NYC with grant and fellowship support from Sundance Institute, Chicken and Egg Pictures, Women in Film, Berlinale Talents, Hot Docs Cross Currents, SFFilm, MEDIA Europe and the International Documentary Association amongst others.

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Originally classically trained as a fine artist, Mara built a career in filmmaking, crafting politically engaged documentaries that confront the harsh realities of our time. While working at the highest levels of the documentary industry, her practice increasingly turned toward questions of power, extraction, and the limits of representation within dominant cultural systems.

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In 2022, she returned to visual art, merging her filmic sensibilities with bold, immersive installations. Her work now spans large-scale oil paintings, sculptural interventions, video, and sound installations that interrogate the legacies of capitalism and colonialism, while imagining pathways toward climate justice and radically hopeful futures. Rooted in feminist ecology, systems thinking, and relational practice, her work seeks to move beyond explanation toward embodied experience, creating spaces where viewers are invited to feel, reckon with, and reimagine their relationship to a rapidly collapsing world.