Deboleena Maitra

Deboleena has directed and collaborated on films across the United States, Singapore, India, and the United Arab Emirates. With her upcoming feature debut, THE FIREFLY IN THE JAR, she participated in the 2020 Athena Film Festival at Barnard College Virtual Writers Lab. The script received faculty sponsorship for NYU's The Purple List 2021 and the NYU Production Lab advanced the project for interviews in rigorous review for their 2021 Slate of projects to fund. It is now in the second round of consideration for Sundance Institute's 2022 Development Track. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Film Production.