Maia Buljeta is a film director and the CEO of humanitarian film production company Hypothius Picturehouse. With multiple collaborations with a variety of organizations including as an invited panelist speaker at the 2022 UNICEF USA Earth Day event, and with Academy Award-qualifying San Francisco International Film Festival, Maia has worked to create universal joy with cinema. She directed her debut feature film His with a cast that includes Michael C. Williams from the Blair Witch Project. Maia also worked as a film educator at the Jacob Burns Film Center Media Arts Lab for four years. Her previous short films have gone on to screen in numerous theaters and international film festivals.