Shwarna Prabhu

Shwarna Reka Prabhu is a student filmmaker who has been exploring different streams in media since 2019, including RJ-ing, acting, scriptwriting, podcasting, editing, and sound designing. She has been mentored by Pamela Ribon (Academy Award-nominated American screenwriter), Ruth Atkinson, and Triparna Banerjee as part of a screenwriting retreat by one of the prestigious 'Film Independent' programs, Global Media Makers, where the participants were nominated by Bina Paul (National Award-Winning Editor). As a student filmmaker, she has made documentaries, TV shows, advertisements, and a couple of short films during her college days.

Maya stems from my own dream, which makes my subconscious the writer for this film. This film portrays various emotions like a roller-coaster ride that we all experience in our dreams, which at times makes no sense, but later, when it's put together, we can decode the encrypted message that our subconscious delivered, which could be a warning for what's going to come up or a reminder of what happened previously to avoid regrets in the future. Most of us would have also experienced dreams as a portal to connect with our loved ones who are no more, which makes them special, though they do not have any scientific proof of being a portal to the dead world.