After graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Matias Mariani worked extensively as a producer in films such as Fish Dreams (Cannes’ Critics Week), Drained (Sundance), Adrift (Cannes Un Certain Regard). In 2014 he began his directing career with the documentary feature I Touched All Your Stuff, which had its world première at FID Marseille and won Best Editing at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, as well as being released theatrically both in Brazil and the US, followed by the fiction feature Shine Your Eyes, which had its première in the Panorama session of the 2020 Berlinale, and Cora, a hybrid docu-fiction which premiered at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and won the TFI Latin American Fund. As a scriptwriter Matias worked on I Bring it With me (best film at Brasília Film Festival), Pendular (FIPRESCI award at Berlinale 2017), Shine Your Eyes and Cora.