Paula Lima was born in southeastern Brazil. In 2001, she received her degree in Advertising, moved to São Paulo and there began working as an assistant director. Paula worked on several feature films, TV shows and hundreds of commercials. In 2008, she moved to San Francisco, California, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Film. Since then, Paula has been developing award-winning shorts and feature-length narrative films; working as a producer, unit production manager, and assistant director in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and her home country.