Background
Poras was born on a United States Army base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky and raised in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Marlo Poras
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She graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
Career
Poras worked as an apprentice to Thelma Schoonmaker at Martin Scorsese"s Cappa Productions and was an apprentice and assistant editor on independent films such as Greg Mottola"s Daytrippers and Alison Anders" Grace Of My Heart. While living in Vietnam, Poras found the inspiration for her first film, Mai"s America which was shown on Public Broadcasting Service and was called the best documentary of 2002 by the Boston Phoenix and the best festival film of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times. Her second film is Run Granny Run.
Released by Home Box Office in 2007, Run Granny Run is about the 2004 Senate campaign of then 94-year-old Doris "Granny Doctorate" Haddock.
In 2012, she released her film The Mosuo Sisters contrasting modern life and the life of the Mosuo people of western China through the lives of two sisters.
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