Maya Gnyp

Maya Gnyp is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated film producer.

She produced the documentary, I Am Ready, Warden (2024) and was an executive producer of the TV Series Muslim Matchmaker (2025), commissioned by ABC New Studios and released by Hulu and Disney+. I Am Ready, Warden was nominated for the Short Documentary Academy Award during the 97th Oscars, has won two prizes at the Austin Film Festival, and was part of the DocNYC and CinemaEye Shortlists in 2024.^{[citation needed]}

She has produced the episode "Shelter" for the series Through Our Eyes, and the films Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Finding the Field, Ecco Homo, In Bob We Trust, and Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard. "Shelter" won the Audience Award at the 2021 AFI DOCS Film Festival and the 2022 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Children's Program.^{[citation needed]} It was nominated for the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short Form Series or Special, and was nominated for the 2022 Humanitas Prize (Best Documentary),^{[citation needed]} and the 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary.^[1]

Maya was educated at The University of Melbourne, Victoria, The University of California at Berkeley, and at IE Business School. She lives and works between Los Angeles, California and Melbourne, Victoria.^[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2024	I Am Ready, Warden	Producer	American short documentary film directed by Smriti Mundhra, shortlisted for the Best Documentary Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards.[3]
2021	Shelter	Producer
2021	Eyes on The Prize: Hallowed Ground	Associate Producer
2019	Mystify: Michael Hutchence	Producer
2018	Finding the Field
2015	Ecco Homo
2013	In Bob We Trust
2011	Autoluminescent	Line Producer