Māra Liniņa (Riga, 1971) studied Film Direction and Stage Speech at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Since 1998 Māra teaches elocution and acting at various higher educational establishments and works as a casting director for Latvian and international film projects. She also has staged productions at the Latvian Puppet Theatre and independent Theatre Company Skatuve. Māra Liniņa has begun her career in animation in the 90s working as executive artist at Dauka Animation studio. However, soon she started to direct her own animation short films. Māra has said that working on her own animation films means for her to be in dialogue with the world, to tell adventures, and experiences in the language of cinema.