Born and raised in Italy, Maja Costa is a multilingual writer/director based in Berlin. After studying Ancient Near Eastern Studies (MA) and Cello in Milan, she graduated in Screenwriting from the DFFB. Since then she has collaborated in various roles with numerous European film productions and has worked as a writer in many German and international writers’ rooms – i.a. Anorak Film (Berlin), TV60 Filmproduktion (Munich), Palomar (Rome).