Maya Gnyp

{{short description|Australian film producer}}

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Maya Gnyp is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated film producer.

She produced the documentary, I Am Ready, Warden (2024) and was an executive producer of the TV Series Muslim Matchmaker (2025), commissioned by ABC New Studios and released by Hulu and Disney+. I Am Ready, Warden was nominated for the Short Documentary Academy Award during the 97th Oscars, has won two prizes at the Austin Film Festival, and was part of the DocNYC and CinemaEye Shortlists in 2024.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

She has produced the episode "Shelter" for the series Through Our Eyes, and the films Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Finding the Field, Ecco Homo, In Bob We Trust, and Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard. "Shelter" won the Audience Award at the 2021 AFI DOCS Film Festival and the 2022 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Children's Program.{{cn|date=February 2025}} It was nominated for the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short Form Series or Special, and was nominated for the 2022 Humanitas Prize (Best Documentary),{{cn|date=February 2025}} and the 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/national-academy-of-tv-arts-sciences-announces-2022-news-documentary-emmy-nominees-1235188293/|title=2022 News and Documentary EMMYS |author=Beatrice Verhoeven|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter}}

Maya was educated at The University of Melbourne, Victoria, The University of California at Berkeley, and at IE Business School. She lives and works between Los Angeles, California and Melbourne, Victoria.{{cite web|url=http://fourthreefilm.com/2016/02/ecco-homo-an-interview-with-director-lynn-maree-milburn-and-producer-maya-gnyp/|title=4:3 Film Interview|website=4:3 Film|publisher=Four Three Film}}