Maéva Ranaïvojaona

*1983 Toulouse (France)

Maéva was born in the 1980s in southern France, growing up in a multicultural environment that shaped her creative development. After more than six years in photography, painting, and video, she earned her National Higher Diploma in Fine Arts. She ultimately found cinema to be the perfect medium to unite her disciplines and amplify her strong, authentic authorial voice, while bringing unique perspectives to the forefront.

Her vocation became evident in 2012 when her first short film, Domicile, was screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). This experience marked the beginning of her deep commitment to cinema. She views film as a powerful tool for exploring identities and broadening the horizons of global audiences — bridging indigenous communities with their diasporas, shedding new light on history, and empowering dreams and memory.

In 2017, she joined filmmaker Georg Tiller to co-direct the production company Subobscura Films, expanding the activities of this Austrian company to France. She was awarded as a producer at FIDLab 2018 and recently participated in the career development programs of the Realness Institute’s Creative Producers Indaba (2024) and the EFM Toolbox Diversity Program at Berlinale (2025).

As a director, she has been awarded three times for her creative documentary Zaho Zay (FID Marseille and Viennale, 2020). Most recently, her upcoming feature film was selected for the European training program EKRAN+ in Warsaw (2022) and the Alliance 4 Development program at the Locarno Film Festival (2024).