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Of Greek, Bahamian and Scottish decent, Maria was raised on the small island of New Providence in the Bahamas. In her twenties she spent four years in Los Angeles working in production before returning home to make small, guerilla-style, local documentaries of her own. A decade of such listening and hands on work, shaped her foundation.
Her first narrative feature film Rain, staring CCH Pounder and Irma P Hall, was shot in the Bahamas, and in 2008 premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Having won numerous awards internationally, Rain, was licensed to Showtime Networks, and distributed by RLJ Entertainment.
Maria’s second feature, Play the Devil, was one of three films to be awarded a significant grant from Creative TT, a government arm in support of the creative arts in Trinidad and Tobago, and was shot entirely in Trinidad in the spring of 2015. The film was selected for the Caribbean spotlight at Ventana Sur, a film market in Buenos Aires, and also selected for Primera Mirada at IFFP (Panama). Play the Devil premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June, 2016 and has had garnered great success on the festival circuit. Breaking Glass is now distributing Play the Devil, worldwide.
In February of 2018, a new chapter began in Maria’s career, when Ava Duvernay hired her to direct the episode “No Haven In My Shadow,” from the scripted series Queen Sugar. That episode aired on the OWN network on June 20th, 2018. Govan, now represented by Circle of Confusion, is currently pursuing further directing jobs in television, while also developing her own television series entitled, Brooklyn Uchedeshi - My Life in a Dojo _and her next feature film Epiphany. She is also writing a television pilot for Westward Ho Productions and Archery Pictures in the UK._