Maya Dardel

The story of the final weeks leading up to the ambiguous disappearance of Maya Dardel, an internationally respected poet and novelist, who lived until 2016 in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Maya announces on National Public Radio that she intends to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become executor of her estate. Men drive up the mountain and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, erotically, until one of them begins this fathom Maya's end game.

"What are we to do with a talent as ferocious and as individual as Lena Olin?"

- RogerEbert.com

"A indelible portrait of an original character."

- Bust Magazine

"Maya Dardel's feminist boldness crosses into the exhilarating."

- Flick Filosopher

"A beautiful work of art."

- Paste Magazine

"Bracingly incisive."

- The Los Angeles Times

"Olin is riveting."

- Indiewire

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Cast

Lena Olin	Maya
Alexander Koch	Paul
Nathan Keyes	Ansel
Jordan Gavaris	Kevin
Chris Voss	Moses
Rosanna Arquette	Leonora

Filmmakers

Written and Directed by	Zachary Cotler Magdalena Zyzak
Producers	Mike S. Ryan Morgan Jon Fox Dariusz Jablonski Violetta Kaminska Izabela Wojcik
Executive Producer	Craig R. Johnson
Director of Photography	Patrick Scola
Editor	Osman Bayraktaroglu
Production Sound Mixer	Clint Allday
Sound Design	Tomasz Dukszta
Production Design	Sarah Cole
Costume Design	Susan Doepner-Senac
Original Poetry and Music	Zachary Cotler
Casting	Susan Shopmaker Matthew Lessall
Hair and Makeup	Sonia Paniagua