Bird Talent
Maya Delagrée

Maya Delagrée

Film director Head of production

Canadian filmmaker based in Barcelona, Maya Delagrée develops a deeply human body of work situated at the intersection of observational documentary and sensory exploration. Her practice investigates the invisible traces left by social, intimate, and climate-related upheavals, through an approach where listening, presence, and time become essential narrative tools.

Her cinema unfolds from spectacular, drawing closer to bodies, silences, and inner landscapes. She explores what remains after rupture: fragile voices, buried memories, and the absences that shape identity. Through a precise and immersive visual language, she gives particular importance to sound, light, and rhythm, treating them as integral components of storytelling. This holistic command of the filmmaking process allows her to create coherent, sensitive, and deeply embodied works, driven by themes of resilience, transmission, and collective reconstruction.

She is also engaged in an international collaborative dynamic, notably with Birds Production, a Marseille-based company specializing in corporate and artistic media, with whom she develops and co-produces several projects. This partnership enables her to expand her creative scope, bridging auteur cinema, documentary practice, and contemporary visual production.

Among her works, she co-directed the feature documentary ActFem, which follows four South American teenage girls living in Hospitalet, for whom theatre becomes a space of emancipation and self-expression. With El Sisè Cicle, an intergenerational portrait of Catalan undertakers, she asserts a contemplative approach to reality. The film, currently circulating in several festivals, was nominated for Best Short Film Production at the Festival Internacional de Cinema en Català in 2026.

She is currently developing L’Aigua Recorda (Water Remembers), a sensory feature-length documentary exploring the invisible consequences of a climate disaster in Valencia. Rejecting the conventions of traditional reportage, the film examines trauma, memory, and processes of inner reconstruction through the voices of a community marked by the event. In parallel, she is directing Lumière, a philosophical fiction short film centered on perception and sensory experience.

Her work also extends to documentary photography and music videos, as illustrated by her collaboration with artist Eva Moro on Lost (2025), a visual exploration of freedom and healing after heartbreak. Across all her projects, Maya Delagrée pursues the same ambition : to create images that do not seek to explain the world, but to make it felt. Her cinema thus emerges as a space of memory and attention, resonating with the fractures of our time.