Marco Schiavon was born in Treviso, Italy, in 1993. In 2016 moved to Portugal where he started his studies in Documentary Cinema, completed at IPCI in Porto. In 2018, his first short film project, "Água Nas Guelras", was selected to pitch at the PERSO LAB (PerSo Film Festival - Italy) and shot in the portuguese Azores Islands. Meanwhile, he started working on his next film, "Bratstvo - The Brotherhood", his first feature-length documentary, now in development. For this project he won the Fuorirotta 2018 contest.