Juliana Maité was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She completed her studies in Drama and Film between the University of Puerto Rico, Hunter College (NYC) and L'Univerttá Cattólica (Milán). In 2012 she graduated from the EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba) after three years of formation as a fiction director.

From 2012 to 2013 she produced for Puerto Rico TV the variety show ¨Operativo Cultura¨ and directed the tourism show ¨Puertorriqueñísimo¨. From 2013 to 2014 she taught in the Film Department of the Liceo de Arte y Tecnología. She currently lives in Miami, where she is developing her next projects.

Her short films "Queso de Cabra" (2011), "Agón" (2012), "La Llave de mi Corazón¨ (2017), ¨Preach¨ (2018 - HBO) and ¨El Paso¨ (2019) have traveled the world in the international film circuit and won multiple awards. Her first feature film ¨A Punto de Llegar¨ (2019) is a comedy situated in Jayuya, a small mountain town in Puerto Rico and is available in Amazon Prime Video.

Juliana's second feature film, "Without Prescription" (Receta no Incluida), premiered in SXSW 2o22, where it won the Audience Award in the Global Category. This auteur drama reflects upon mental health and human connections as the medicine we all need.