[3] Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares attended school with the intention of becoming a doctor, but instead changed direction and became a filmmaker.
Her earliest works includes a trilogy that consists of films that all speak to social and political conditions in Brazil, her place of birth.
Mar de Rosas tells the story of a woman that slits her husband's throat and flees with her child.
It depicts a male detective's perverse dreams that include intervention in lesbian relationships and impregnating a female teacher.
The protagonist in the film is a female, named Tereza, that has chaotic dreams of a Prince Charming dressed in medieval costume.
[9] In an interview based on audacity in cinema, Carolina had much to say in regards to the censorship she faced in her time making films in Brazil.
[10] Carolina had a highly influential role as a filmmaker in one of the most restrictive times in Brazil, the Military Dictatorship (1964–1985).