“Integrating several mythologies into the story allowed us to develop a more universal experience” – Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke (MAYA: THE BIRTH OF A SUPERHERO)

By turns a virtual reality animated film, an interactive pop culture experience or a work with an impact on the place of women in our societies (by questioning our view of female menstruation in adolescence), MAYA: THE BIRTH OF A SUPERHERO by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke is in Immersive Competition at Cannes 2024. The project has had a real career at festivals: New Voices Special Mention at Tribeca 2023, in competition at SXSW 2024... But MAYA is also a new chapter in a discussion initiated back in 2013 with…