Maya Derrington co-founded Still Films with Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley on 2006, having worked with them on a range of projects since she moved to Dublin from London in 1996. She is developing a further feature length doc for Still Films, focussing on the lives of teenage girls in a conflict-fraught Dublin flats complex.

Maya has worked in television for seven years, principally with Tyrone Productions. She produced a six part prime time series, The Master's Apprentice for RTÉ ONE and a six part music series, Blastbeat for RTÉ TWO, both for Tyrone. Other credits include the award winning Imperfect Day - an hour long documentary about James Joyce's Ulysses with Blueprint Films for RTÉ ONE , the Irish Film and Television Awards, travel series Wanderlust and Charity Queens, a two part observational documentary for RTÉ ONE 's True Lives slot. She has also developed a number of commissioned projects.

In the UK, Maya worked for the BBC and for Bloomsbury Publishing. A graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London, she is co-founder of Cow's Lane Fashion and Design Market in Dublin and has written for the Irish Independent and the Radio Times.