Natasha Maidoff’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in the Brooklyn Museum. Her award-winning films have toured internationally, including screenings at the Guggenheim and Pecci Museums. She has received artist residencies to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.

A long-time resident of Venice, California, Maidoff currently teaches filmmaking and screenwriting at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She also runs her practice as a Creative Coach.

Maidoff spent four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University’s School of Film. While living in southeast Ohio, Maidoff became aware of the devastation the opiate epidemic was wreaking on the foothills of Appalachia. She met two young women surviving with opiate-addicted parents.  Their story inspired her most recent film, The Fullest Day of Summer and informed her novel, Opiate Orphans, (represented by Transatlantic Agency). Maidoff’s writing has been optioned by Hollywood producers and represented by CAA. She’s been a finalist with Sundance Writer’s Lab (twice), and a quarter-finalist with Scriptapalooza and Academy Nicholls Fellowship. Her script Illegitimate placed as semifinalist for The Writers Lab in 2021.

Maidoff earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Film, Theater and Television where she won the Director’s Spotlight Award. Maidoff has been the recipient of a Mellon Grant for an environmentally themed multi-media performance art piece called Junkyard Jukebox.

“I have nothing but praise and admiration for Natasha’s work – its overall direction, its professional execution and her potential for future, continuous excellence in film/video production and related work. I find her work brave, amazing and inspiring.”

—Janet Bergstrom, Professor, Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA (Scholar of Jean Renoir, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Claire Denis, Chantal Akerman)

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