Producer for digital and tv storytelling of the climate crisis, with the team that did the Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously w. James Cameron. www.theyearsproject.com
Summary
Maya is a Producer & Research Producer. Recent projects include Amazon's first theatrically distributed documentary with Emmy-winning director Lauren Greenfield (Generation Wealth), and Field Producing for Seven Bucks/BET. I make your job easy!
Credits
2/19 – 2/20
Supervising Producer
Staff Position — The Years Project Details
2/19 – 2/20
8/18 – 8/19
Senior Field Producer – Finding Justice (Season 1)
BET — TV — Leepson Bounds Entertainment Details
8/18 – 8/19
Field and Story Producing for a joint production with Leepson Bounds and The Rock's production company, Seven Bucks. Looking around the U.S. at black leaders aiming for justice.
5/18 – 5/19
Researcher – Life at All Costs (Pilot)
TV — Asha Dhaya Details
5/18 – 5/19
Putting together pilot episode, including research, pre-interviewing, treatments, story arcs, and securing interviews.
12/17 – 12/18
Director – Gungho Eco
YouTube — Digital Details
12/17 – 12/18
Concept, directing, producing, and writing influencer videos for YouTube series on positive environmental change.
1/18 – 6/18
Researcher – Marilyn (Pilot)
Sizzle Reel — TV — Echo and Earl Details
1/18 – 6/18
Research and development for new unscripted series pilot about Marilyn Monroe.
10/17 – 12/17
Producer – Resist
TV — Pulse Films Details
10/17 – 12/17
Pulse Films, owned by VICE and in partnership with Black Pills, produced a docuseries following activists against the prison industrial complex, including Black Lives Matter. We followed activist subjects in a 43-day shoot which I primarily arranged and field produced, including many 2-camera 2-sound drone protest days with hundreds of people.
12/12 – 10/17
Researcher – Generation Wealth
Film (Feature-length) — Evergreen Pictures Details
12/12 – 10/17
Researching all story angles and subjects for Amazon's first theatrically distributed documentary. Finding subjects with very little given information, following leads like a journalist, writing dossiers for Director interviews, finding additional story angles, scheduling, communicating and convincing interviews, and otherwise being an expert on topics of the plot.
12/12 – 10/17
Producer – Generation Wealth
Film (Feature-length) — Evergreen Studios Details
12/12 – 10/17
Opening night documentary- Sundance 2018! All story production for interview cinema verité. Research and outreach to all interview subjects. Creation of Ask letters and dossiers on subjects. Arrangement and scheduling of shoot logistics with Lauren Greenfield, balancing director/crew schedule with subjects schedules.
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Mark Henry
Executive Producer (EP)
An amazing producer and great Interviewer, I worked with Maya in environments where critical thinking and artistic genius in communication required absolute commitment, while covering sensitive social, legal and political issues that span the US. I'd ...MORE...
work with her again in-a-second and I highly recommend her.
- Mark was Sound Mixer and Maya was Producer on Finding Justice
Education
New York Film Academy
HD Digital Filmmaking
United Nations University for Peace
Master of Arts (M.A.)/Environmental Security and Peace
The Juilliard School
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)/Acting
New College of Florida
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)/Environmental Studies
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