A Conversation with Maria Maggenti | IFF 2023

IFF Presents: "On Rom-Coms, Indie Films, & Crafting a Story" - A Conversation with Director and Screenwriter Maria Maggenti Ivy Film Festival 2023 - Wednesday, April 12th at 2 PM EDT Maria Maggenti is a filmmaker, screenwriter and tv writer. Her career as writer/director was launched at Sundance with the iconic indie movie The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love released by Fine Line Features. Her follow-up feature Puccini for Beginners distributed by Strand Releasing was another Sundance hit. Her feature writing credits include The Love Letter for Dreamworks, Monte Carlo for Fox 2000 and Before I Fall directed by Ry Russo Young. She has been a writer/producer on Without A Trace for CBS, MTV’s Finding Carter, Lifetime’s UnReal and the CW’s Supergirl. She was Executive Producer on Motherland: Ft. Salem for Freeform and a Co-Ep on Sex/Life for Netflix. In addition, Maria is adapting the novel “Song for A Whale” for Disney + and Stewart O’Nan’s novel "The Odds" for Amazon, with James Ponsoldt. Maggenti received her MFA in filmmaking from the NYU Graduate Film Institute Tisch School of the Arts and her undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Latin and Greek from Smith College.