April Maiya

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April Maiya (New York, New York) is a documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles, California where she grew up with a Asian-American mother and Hawaiian father. Maiya admits to dropping out of Loyola Marymount University Law School to shoot her first documentary film, Color N.E.W.S. (2000), a gritty street-style "DVD magazine" on hip hop urban culture. The renegade documentary became a best-seller at Virgin Megastores in Japan. She emerged the same year as a Music Supervisor to Paramount's Pictures/SNL comedy movie, The Ladies' Man (2000) directed by Reginald Hudlin (House Part, Boomerang), starring Tim Meadows (The Cookout, Benchwarmers) and Will Farrell (Starsky and Hutch, Bewitched).

Maiya followed up her directorial pursuit with a series of niche, hip hop music related documentaries, Eminem's Slim Shady Show, SMACK DVD Platinum Edition, Wu Tang Clan: Rise of A Fallen Solider, and most notably, the controversial Chronicles of Junior MAFIA about the life and death of slain Bedstuy, Brooklyn rapper, Notorious B.I.G and his rap group, Junior Mafia.

In 2003, she also found the time to create a relatively successful but short-lived lingerie line, "Bella Honey", a cult favorite of the ladies of HBO's late "Sex In The City " and Emmy Award winning stylist, Patricia Field. Starlets and media from Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton to FHM, Maxim and Stuff magazine adorned the designs.

Maiya's personal life peeked in the pages of New York Post's "Page-Six" gossip column when she dated Oscar-nominated movie director and producer, John Singleton (Boyz In The Hood, Four Brothers), and resided in New York during his Paramount Pictures making of "Shaft 2000" starring Samuel L. Jackson (Coach Carter, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2).

She is currently married to talent manager and entertainment executive, Damion Butler from Brooklyn, New York, whom she met during the production of "Chronicles of Junior MAFIA." Butler is best known under the moniker "D-Roc" or "D-Rockafella" and was best friend to Notorious B.I.G. Butler was also Lil' Kim's manager at the time of a New York City radio station shootout that landed himself, Lil' Kim and other members of Junior Mafia in federal prison. Maiya recently produced and directed Conspiracy: Ten Years Later, a tell-all documentary about the Hot 97 radio incident. The film is expected to be released March 2007.

Maiya is also as a TV Producer for Viacom/BET Networks hip hop show, "Rap City".


FILMOGRAPHY

“Conspiracy – Ten Years Later” (2007) “Chronicles of Junior M.A.F.I.A.” (2004) "S.M.A.C.K. PLATINUM EDITION" (2004) "Wu Tang Clan: Rise of A Fallen Soldier" (2004) "Eminem’s “Slim Shady Show” (2003) The Ladies' Man (2000)

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