Mia Maelzer

Mia Maelzer is an award-winning actor based in India. She is best known for her leading role performance in The Field, a short film by Sandhya Suri that is in The Criterion Collection now. The film won The Best International Short Film Award at Toronto International Film Festival 2018 and had its first premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. This film was also nominated at the prestigious BAFTA 2019 followed by the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles, where it won the grand jury award 2019 Mia graduated from the National School of Drama (NSD) in 2016. She is primarily trained in American acting by David Lee Strasberg (New York), European Acting by Ariane Mnouchkine (Paris), Koodiyattam (Ancient Eastern Acting Method) by G.Venugopalan (India), Classical Indian Acting by Rita Ganguly (India) along with many other forms across the world. The UNESCO recognized actress has been noted for her contributions to the World Cinema. In addition to The Field, she is seen in other international films including. In the Beyond the Clouds by Majid Majidi, Mia not only played a role but worked as the Acting Coach and Casting Assistant for the Academy Awarded Iranian Director. The other important films in her credits are Tikli and Laxmi Bomb which is available on Netflix and Ek Betukey Aadmi Ki Afra Raatein where she is playing a lead role along with veteran actor Adil Hussain and other two debutantes, She is also the art director of the film which premiered in France awaiting its India release. She has been nominated for the best actress in a leading role at the international filmmaker's festival held in France 2016 and London 2017 for TikTok, an experimental English feature film. Her most popular role before she won a national scholarship was in two commercial films called Shadi Ke Side Effects (Hindi) and Target Kolkata (Bengali).