Pocas Pascoal darektan fina-finan Angola ne. Maria Esperança "Pocas" Pascoal, an haife ta a ranar 11 ga Nuwamba 1963 a Luanda, Angola, inda ta girma har zuwa shekaru 16 kafin ta bar yakin basasa zuwa Lisbon, Portugal tare da 'yar uwarta. Shekaru biyu bayan haka, ta koma Angola kuma ta zama mace ta farko da ke ɗaukar hoto a gidan talabijin a Luanda. A Faransa, Pascoal ya yi karatu a Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais (CLCF) kuma ya sauke karatu a editan fim. A cikin 2002, ta shiga ƙungiyar masu fasaha na Cité internationale des arts kuma ta shiga cikin nune-nunen zane-zane na zamani. A halin yanzu Pascoal tana zaune ne a tsakanin Paris da Lisbon, inda take aikin fim ɗinta na gaba wanda zai ba da labarin soyayya tsakanin wani sojan Afirka ta Kudu da ɗan Angola. A cikin 1998, ta ba da umarni ga ɗan gajeren fim dinta na farko a Indiya "For Us" da shirye-shirye guda biyu: Memories Childhood (2000) kuma koyaushe akwai wanda yake son ku (2004).