Mariana Reyes was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood and youth there. She holds 2 degrees in psychology (UNAM, Mexico) and game design (XAMK, Finland). She currently lives in Finland and has been a permanent resident of Finland since 2020. Mariana studied film production at UACM, Mexico City. Her early video work was nominated as a finalist at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, 2011). She is currently working on her debut documentary "Inherited Shadow" with Making Movies Oy and Cactus Film & Video. As her daytime job, Mariana works at Lapland University of Applied Sciences exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence in the visual arts and virtual production for film and video games.