Marta Balletbò- Coll was born in Barcelona in 1960. She attended the Central University of Barcelona and got her degree in Chemical Sciences. When she first went to college she didn’t really know what she wanted to study which is why she studied chemistry. She finished her major and began doing journalism work and writing television scripts. She then achieved the Fullbright Scholarship, or La Caixa, to go and study film at Colombia University in New York. She received her masters in cinematographic direction. She did a few short film projects and in 1994 completed, Costa Brava. She never received any of the funding that new film directors are supposed to r