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Creative film producer and distributor, Mayra Faour Auad, has been dedicated to film and series production and the creation of companies in the cinema and entertainment industry, such as the distribution company Pagu Pictures and the production company MyMama Entertainment. MyMama Entertainment has been in the market for 12 years, producing feature films, TV series, commercials, music videos, and branded content. Additionally, she was a partner at Passage Pictures in Los Angeles, where she produced projects like Noah Baumbach's feature film "White Noise" for Netflix, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, which opened the Venice Film Festival in 2022. She also produced the feature film "Tesla," directed by Michael Almereyda and starring Ethan Hawke, which opened the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.
Mayra's films have received awards at major film festivals, such as Cannes ("The Orphan"; Queer Palm for Best Short Film in 2018), Berlinale ("Fogaréu"; Audience Award for Best Feature Film in the Panorama Section, Berlin Film Festival in 2022), Sundance ("Tesla"; Alfred P. Sloan Prize for Best Feature Film in 2020), SXSW ("The Orphan"; Special Jury Award in 2019), Venice ("White Noise"; Green Drop Award and Opening Night Film in 2022), among others. Her most recent and acclaimed festival release was "Medusa," which premiered at the Director's Fortnight in Cannes in 2021. She also won two International Emmy Awards with Fox/Disney for "Hack the City" and "Our Blood, Our Body."
In 2022, Mayra launched the series "Beat Diáspora" with KondZilla and YouTube Originals, as well as a documentary series about Adriano Imperador for ViacomCBS. She produced three feature films released in 2022, the documentary "Odilon, Réu de Si Mesmo" (HBOMAX), and the fiction films "Fogaréu" (Audience Award Winner in the Panorama Section of the Berlin Film Festival) and "Los de Abajo" (Official Selection - Mar del Plata Film Festival).
In 2023, she will release the next film from acclaimed director Andrucha Waddington, "Vitória," in co-production with Conspiração and Globoplay, starring actress Fernanda Montenegro ("Central Station" and "Invisible Life" by Karim Ainouz) and Linn da Quebrada ("Tranny Fag" and "Vale Night").
