Mayye Zayed is an award-winning Egyptian filmmaker and the founder of Cléo Media for female-driven content production and impact distribution in Alexandria. She works as a film director, producer, director of photography and editor. In 2020, she directed and produced the feature documentary “Lift Like a Girl” (TIFF 2020, Golden Dove Award at Dok Leipzig 2020, Bronze Pyramid Award, Audience Award and Isis Award at Cairo FF 2020, Best Documentary at the Critics Awards for Arab Films in Cannes 2021). In 2016 she directed, produced and edited the short film “A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane” (Berlinale 2016, AFI Fest 2016, Best Experimental Film at Sharjah Film Platform 2019). Mayye is a Fulbright scholar who studied cinema and media studies at Wellesley College and Innovations in Documentary at MIT in 2011/2012 in the USA. She is the recipient of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers Fellowships in 2017 and 2019. She’s also an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Nipkow Program, Good Pitch, Mediterranean Film Institute, Documentary Campus Masterschool, DOX BOX, IDA and the American Film Showcase documentary program in USC School of Cinematic Arts.