Maggie is a natural born director with a deep passion for storytelling and world building. She has worked as a freelance filmmaker for the last eight years, creating original award-winning shorts, commercials, web series and branded content.

Chosen as one of eight women to participate in AFI’s prestigious DWW in 2017, Maggie created the ambitious short film UNBOUND. It was selected for numerous Academy Award qualifying festivals, such as HollyShorts, where it won Best Director for Sci-Fi/Fantasy. UNBOUND was also awarded the coveted Emerging Cinematographers Award from ICG.

Maggie was then selected for the Fox Filmmakers Lab. There she had the opportunity to pitch a FOX franchise short film to head studio executives. As part of the inaugural year of the Ryan Murphy HALF TV Director Mentorship program, Maggie shadowed on the show FEUD and recently shadowed on the show UnREAL and prior to that on GRIMM at NBC.

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Maggie Mahrt

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