Marrs is also half-Japanese. Her mother, Mariko, is a native of Japan and also did set decoration for Marrs' Oscar-winning film,
Inside Job. She attended
Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Washington, graduating with an undergraduate degree in 1996.
Film Marrs is the producer of
No End in Sight, which is her first film. It won a Special Jury Prize for documentaries at the 2007
Sundance Film Festival. She and
Charles H. Ferguson were also nominated for an
Oscar in the
Best Documentary Feature film category for the film. Marrs next produced
Inside Job with Ferguson, a documentary about the
2008 financial crisis, which was screened at the
Cannes Film Festival in May 2010.
Inside Job was released by
Sony Pictures Classics in October 2010 and subsequently won the
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Music Before her film career, Marrs was a participant in the
Olympia,
Washington indie rock scene. Marrs graduated
Tumwater High School in
Tumwater,
Washington in 1988. She graduated from
The Evergreen State College in
Olympia,
Washington in 1996. In 2001 she was working as an art curator and was a
co-founder of Ladyfest, a global music and arts festival. In 2002, Marrs was the
keyboardist for the album
Girls Get Busy by the punk band
Bratmobile. Before that, she was a member of the band
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