Maya Da-Rin
Director and Screenwriter
Maya Da-Rin is a director, screenwriter, consultant and visual artist. With a master's degree in cinema from the Sorbonne Nouvelle and training at Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France, she studied actor direction at EICTV in Cuba.
His work has been shown at important festivals and museums, such as Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, MoMA and the New Museum, and he has received numerous awards - such as Best Director at the Chicago, Rio and Brasília festivals.
As a screenwriter, she has taken part in the Cinéfondation du Festival de Cannes, TorinoFilmLab Script&Pitch, FrameWork and BoostNL residencies, among others. She was a resident artist at the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and is currently a member of the Paradiso Project Talent Network.
She wrote and directed the short films "E Agora, José?" (2002) and "Versão Francesa" (2011), the documentaries "Terras" (2009) and "Margem" (2007) and made the installations "Horizonte de Eventos" (2012) and "Camuflagem" (2013).
Her first feature film, "The Fever" (2019), premiered in the international competition at Locarno, winning the Leopard for Best Actor, the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize and the Young Jury Prize. Co-produced by Brazil, France and Germany, "A Febre" has received more than 35 awards around the world, including Best Film at the Biarritz, IndieLisboa, Mar del Plata and Pingyao film festivals, as well as being the big winner at the Brasília Film Festival in 2019 and the Brazilian Film Grand Prix in 2020. Considered "extraordinary" by the NY Times, "visionary" by Cahiers du Cinéma and "breathtaking" by Variety, it was distributed in cinemas in the USA, Canada, France, England and China and is part of platforms such as Netflix, Criterion Collection, Mubi, Arte.
She wrote the screenplay for Sandra Werneck's "Amores Possibles" (2001), which won best Latin American film at Sundance, and was assistant director to several Brazilian directors, including Sandra Werneck, Lucia Murat and Marcos Bernstein.
A founding partner of the Tamanduá Vermelho production company, Maya also works as a teacher, script consultant, curator and judge at film festivals. She has been on the jury of festivals such as Pingyao, organized by director Jia Zhangke, Lima, Santa Maria da Feira, Forumdoc.bh, Semana de Cinema and Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival.