Maria Romanova-Hynes is a writer, filmmaker, and visual artist, whose short films and screenplays have won multiple accolades at the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards and the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, among others. Her latest short script Noa’s Place became a Nominee at the 54th Nashville Film Festival. Outside of film, her artistic and scholarly work, mostly focusing on the representation of traumatic absences in film and photography, has been featured in various peer-reviewed publications, including Arts (MDPI).

Maria is an alumna of Leiden University (MA Film and Photographic Studies, cum laude) and Trinity College Dublin (MSc Interactive Digital Media, BA English Studies, First Class Honours). In addition, she spent a year at the National University of Singapore, where she studied classical and ritual Asian drama.

She is based in the Netherlands and Ireland. For a deeper look into Maria’s work, please visit https://www.romanovahynes.com/.