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.
Her 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).
She wrote and directed the short films “Versão Francesa” (2011) and “E Agora, José?” (2002), the documentaries “Terras” (2009) and “Margem” (2007), and created the installations “Camuflagem” (2013) and “Horizonte de Eventos” (2012).
Her first fiction feature film, “A Febre” (2019), premiered in Locarno’s International Competition, winning the Leopard for Best Actor, the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize, and the Young Jury Prize. A co-production between Brazil, France, and Germany, “A Febre” received more than 35 awards worldwide, including Best Film at the Biarritz, IndieLisboa, Mar del Plata, and Pingyao festivals, and was the top winner at the Brasília Film Festival in 2019 and at the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro in 2020. Described as “extraordinary” by The New York Times, “visionary” by Cahiers du Cinéma, and “powerful” by Variety, it was released theatrically in the U.S., Canada, France, the U.K., and China, and is available on platforms such as Netflix, the Criterion Collection, MUBI, and Arte.
She is the writer of the story for “Amores Possíveis” (2001), directed by Sandra Werneck, which won the award for Best Latin American Film at Sundance, and she has served as assistant director for several Brazilian filmmakers, including Sandra Werneck, Lucia Murat, and Marcos Bernstein.
A co-founding partner of the production company “Tamanduá Vermelho”, Maya also works as a teacher, script consultant, curator, and festival juror. She has served on juries at festivals such as Pingyao (founded by filmmaker Jia Zhangke), Lima, Santa Maria da Feira, Forumdoc.bh, Semana de Cinema, and Curta Cinema – Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival."