'The first film I took on the road was about a blowjob. I know how it sounds but 'Original Sin' is an absurdist, dark comedy about empowering women through blowjobs among other things.
That film was picked up HBO Max.
We premiered to a full house at Austin Film Festival. I had no idea how people would received it but standing at the back of the theater waiting was electric. As the lights dimmed, the credits rolled and my character spoke her first line I heard laughter break across the room. And it didn't stop there. They laughed throughout the enitre film. I was hooked, ready to do it all over again. Independent filmmaking.'
Maia Pecci
BIO
Maia is a multilingual writer, actor and family constellation facilitator originally from Paraguay based in NYC. She graduated from the Stella Adler Academy of Theater and Acting, and is trained in The Lucid Body Technique. Her debut as a writer-producer-lead is the feature film ‘Original Sin’, a first time co-production between the US-Paraguay. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival, went to over 20 film festivals and was picked up by HBO Max. ‘The Rise of Elisa Lynch’, her first TV show in development was selected at SANFIC’s Lab series, The Gotham TV Lab Series, Guadalajara International Film Festival and NALIP Latino Media Market. In 2022, Maia founded the production company Always Wild Content. The company has produced ‘The Grey in Between’, a short film directed-written-acted by Maia that premiered at the NY Shorts, and ‘Brace for Impact!’, her first theatrical piece which had a stage reading at Culture Lab and a month-long workshop run at The Tank. Most recently, Maia has finished her second play ‘We Live, We Die and Death Not Ends’.
