Maya
Feature length film Completed 2020
Producer
Hugh Hartford
Director
Anson Hartford
Director
Jamshid Mojaddadi
Doc Society helped with
Production
Daily life at Mashhad Zoo is interrupted when head keeper Mohsen is invited to take Maya, his beloved Bengal tiger, to act in a fiction film in the North of the country. With real life drama, hallucinatory imaginations and stunning imagery of Iran’s great wilderness, the film stands as a fable for our relationship with the natural world.
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Crew
Hugh Hartford
Producer
For the past five years Hugh has produced and directed documentaries for UK and international broadcasters through Banyak Films - a company he co-founded.
Broadcasters that Banyak have worked with to date include BBC, Channel Four, National Geographic, Al Jazeera and Sky. Hugh's last project, Us Now, was first aired on Channel 4's True Stories. He regularly makes half hour current affairs documentaries for Al Jazeera English.
Anson Hartford has produced documentaries for the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Sky Arts as well as the Film Council, BBC Films and a host of independent ventures.
Anson's last film James Ravilious; A World In Photographs was a BBC4 Arts documentary about one of the great unknowns of British photography. Anson co-founded Banyak Films in 2005.
