Maya Daisy Hawke is an editor and experimental filmmaker. Her recent project, Unfated Yet, a live online video installation, was first presented in March 2020 by First Look at Museum of the Moving Image and Sundance Documentary Film Program.

She is the creator of the interactive social media video novels, Box of Birds and Currency of Despair, both Facebook based. She was co-director of Little Ethiopia, a love story between two editors, told as a live documentary, which was performed at the Sundance Film Festival, Frames of Representation and First Look (2018–19).

Maya is the editor of over a dozen feature length documentary films, including Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue and Nahiza Arebi Freedom Fields. Also the BBC series House of Assad: A Dangerous Dynasty, and Moon Landing Live for Channel 4.