Maria Maggenti (born 1962) is a film director and screenwriter for film and television.
She has been the script editor and has written many episodes of the American television series, Without a Trace (2003), but is perhaps best known for her feature film, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995). Her film Puccini for Beginners was in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. She was also an activist with ACT UP for many years. She attended Smith College and majored in Philosophy and Classics.
Maria Maggenti Biography / Wiki
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Maria Maggenti
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Gender
Female
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Writing
Place of Birth
Washington, USA
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Maria Maggenti Acting Movies
Movie Name
Character
Release Date
Overview
At Sundance
Herself
1995-01-01
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg A…
Lavender Limelight
Self
1998-01-01
From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors. …
Maria Maggenti Directing Movies
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Puccini for Beginners
Director
2006-01-01
When her inability to commit leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, opera-loving writer Allegra winds up in the bed of amiable professor Philip. He i…
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Director
1995-06-16
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical strug…
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo
Director
1988-01-01
Outraged by the controversial January, 1988 article in Cosmopolitan magazine, the women in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, (Act Up, New York), or…
Maria Maggenti Production Movies
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Job
Release Date
Overview
Executive Producer
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country,…
Writing
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Puccini for Beginners
Writer
2006-01-01
When her inability to commit leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, opera-loving writer Allegra winds up in the bed of amiable professor Philip. He i…
The Love Letter
Writer
1999-05-21
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down….
Monte Carlo
Screenplay
2011-07-01
Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress….
Before I Fall
Screenplay
2017-03-02
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the sam…
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Writer
1995-06-16
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical strug…
Writer
90210 revolves around several students at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon W…
Writer
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City….
Writer
A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family….
Teleplay
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her…
Writer
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her…
Story
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City….
Teleplay
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City….
