Maylen Calienes

Maylen Calienes, is an award winning producer, writer, director. She was born in Cuba and raised in Miami, FL where her career began in writing, directing and acting for theatre. She later moved to Los Angeles, CA where she started filmmaking. Maylen has written, directed and produced several films which have played in some of the top film festivals. Two of the films she produced "Esta Es Tu Cuba" & "And The Brave Shall Rise" have been Academy Award Contenders. "Esta Es Tu Cuba," is the winner of a Student: Academy Award, Directors Guild Award, Emmy Award. Her award winning film and pilot "The Three Bilinguals" which she wrote, directed & produced has been recognized domestically and internationally and is being built into a franchise.

Maylen is an advocate of diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry and founded Latino Filmmakers Network, a non profit organization, in 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival to bring visibility, opportunity and proper representation to the Latiné community. She is co-founder of Que Eye TV.com a platform for Bilingual (English/Spanish) voices to expand the narrative via podcasts, web series & shorts. "Bro's" a comedy web series she wrote & directed is streaming on queeyetv.com Maylen co-founded with Miguel Ferrer, Multi- Studios a long and short form content film studio that specializes in commercially viable and diverse stories that have an impactful and lasting social message.