Maya Santos is a Documentary Filmmaker, Creative Director, and Architect. Graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University in 1999, Maya found her way to filmmaking through her passion for multi-media. As Lead Editor at Sustainable Media Studio for 3+years, she was inspired in founding Form follows Function, a place-based media studio in 2011. Under this studio name, Maya has collaboratively directed and produced 40+ short documentaries and seven site-specific media installations, including Virtual Reality (VR) documentary "Walking with Grace" (2016) & VR animation "Bronze, Brass, Jazz" (2017). As Curator/Project Director of three multi-media exhibitions for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, "The Space Between" (2009), "Interactive Little Tokyo!" (2016) & "Bronzeville, Little Tokyo" (2017), Maya's scope includes immersive media and site-specific community engagement. She is currently working independently as a Director/Editor and writing her first non-fiction feature narrative screenplay.
