Maria Espinoza Stransky initially studied Philosophy and Theatre at the Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France). Thereafter she studied filmmaking at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ENSAV, Toulouse) where she specialized in Film Direction. In both public institutions, she graduated with honors. She is the co-founder and active member of Sha Mat Les Films Sans Défense, an artist collective and cultural association created in 2017. Maria is a filmmaker, a video artist, a writer and an actress. In 2019, she underwent a Documentary Filmmaking residency at the International School of Film and TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Since 2020, she has been teaching the workshop "Self-Referential Cinema: Hybrid Forms" at the Facultad de Cine in Mexico City where she currently resides.