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Maya Washington is an award-winning narrative and documentary filmmaker (writer/director/producer), actress, writer, poet, creative director, visualist (photography) and arts educator. Her award-winning film, "Through the Banks of the Red Cedar, " about her father Vikings Legend Gene Washington and the desegregation of college football aired on the Big Ten Network and is currently available on PBS platforms including PBS Documentaries Channel through Amazon Prime, Comcast, and iTunes. Her memoir, "Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team that Changed the Game," is an Amazon Editor's Pick for Best History. Her award winning-film CLEAR, about a family reconnecting in the aftermath of wrongful conviction is available on the streaming platforms Argo and Kwelitv. As a freelance tv and film director, Maya directed episodes of the Fox series The Killer Next Door and History Channel’s I Was There, both from Committee Films, and the PBS Kids series Black SciGirls. Her award-winning narrative short, White Space, (starring ABC Family Switched at Birth’s Ryan Lane) about a deaf performance poet aired on network television and was nominated for a Black Reel Award. Maya Washington’s commercial work includes Best Buy, Target, The National Society of Leadership and Success and others.