Maja Costa is as a freelance, multilingual screenwriter/director based. After studying Cello at the Milan Conservatory and getting a master’s degree in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology, she studied Screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb) and is, as a scholarship holder from SKY Italia, an Alumna of the International Showrunner Incubator Serial Eyes. She is currently co-developing original series for different production companies and broadcasters and co-adapting the novel “E.E.” by Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tocarkzuk into a feature-length film. Her short film Mångata has been granted production aid by the European Space Agency. Her original short series Réveil won 2021 the Best Pitch Prize at the Marseille Web Festival.