Audrey Marie Marrs (born June 25, 1970) is an American film producer, the Chief Operating Officer of Representational Pictures, Inc. She is a former punk rock musician and co-founder of

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Biography

Marrs is also half-Japanese. Her mother, Mariko, is a native of Japan and also did set decoration for Marrs' Oscar-winning film, ''

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''. She attended

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, graduating with an undergraduate degree in 1996. In 2008, Marrs received a

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degree in Curatorial Practice from

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. She was married to musician

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. She has since remarried and she and her husband have two children.

Film

Marrs is the producer of''

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'', which is her first film. It won a Special Jury Prize for documentaries at the 2007

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. She and Charles H. Ferguson were also nominated for an

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in the Best Documentary Feature film category for the film. Marrs next produced ''

'' with Ferguson, a documentary about the

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, which was screened at the

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in May 2010. ''Inside Job'' was released by

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in October 2010 and subsequently won the

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Music

Before her film career, Marrs was a participant in the

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indie rock scene. Marrs graduated

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in 1988. She graduated from

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in 1996. In 2001 she was working as an art curator and was a

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of Ladyfest, a global music and arts festival. In 2002, Marrs was the

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for the album ''

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'' by the punk band

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. Before that, she was a member of the band Mocket.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marrs, Audrey American documentary film producers 1970 births Living people Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners American chief operating officers California College of the Arts alumni Evergreen State College alumni American punk rock musicians People from Olympia, Washington American musicians of Japanese descent American women musicians of Japanese descent 21st-century American women