Reema Maya aka Reema Sengupta is an award-winning filmmaker who studied Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster, London where she explored new convergent media and graduated at the top of the Media Art and Design School. Her short film Counterfeit Kunkoo had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2018, where it was the first Indian fiction short to be nominated in sixteen years. It has since been selected at more than 120 international film festivals and won forty awards. It was showcased in Sundance 2022 as part of their 40th Anniversary program. The film was featured on Criterion, Mubi, Nowness and was awarded Vimeo Staff Pick – Best of Month. Under the banner of her award-winning production studio CATNIP, Reema has directed ad-films for successful brand campaigns such as Propah Lady for Puma, which won the 2021 YouTube Works Award for Best Long-form Video. Her Love Will Find A Way campaign film for Bumble won her the Blue Elephant for Best Writing. She has worked with international music labels like Elektra and Warner Music Group and has created music videos for reputed artists such as Prateek Kuhad, Ritviz and Badshah; Divine’s first ever collaboration for Netflix. She has been featured in Hindustan Times’ 30 under 30, Harper’s Bazaar’s 101 Creatives to Watch, Elle India’s 5 Boss Ladies Who are Changing the Indie Music Scene and Luxelife’s The New 40. She was awarded the prestigious Asian Film Academy Fellowship Award in 2012 and represented India at the Busan International Film Festival.