MAYA ALBANESE

Maya has directed films and commercials on four continents for clients including Warner Brothers, Nike Women, Kids Foot Locker, John Frieda, IBM, Ketel One, DC Comics, Capital One, Ally Financial, JCPenney, Chevrolet, Dressbarn, Manchester United, and Capital Group. Maya’s filmmaking for brands has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, AdLand, Shoot Magazine, The Drum, and Little Black Book for its emotional storytelling and radically diverse casting. In 2018, she was awarded the Commercial Directors Diversity Program fellowship for emerging directors by the Directors Guild of America, and her commercial, “History” for Georgia Pacific was named a Best New Work of 2018 by Shoot Magazine, which also gave her a Badge of Honor for “Rising Female Filmmaker.”