---
name: "Maya Hawke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maya-daisy-hawke"
fi1m_id: "maya-daisy-hawke"
imdb_id: "nm1585359"
tmdb_id: 1498686
wikidata_id: "Q69891075"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T08:15:30.502248+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Maya Hawke

## Identity

Maya Hawke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maya-daisy-hawke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maya-daisy-hawke
- **IMDb ID:** nm1585359
- **TMDB ID:** 1498686
- **Wikidata ID:** Q69891075
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Daisy_Hawke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69891075, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1585359/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1498686

Editor. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 2005–2010
- **Also known as:** Maya Daisy Hawke
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (1), 2010s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Daisy_Hawke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69891075, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1585359/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1498686

## Biography

Maya Daisy Hawke is a documentary editor. She has edited feature documentaries including *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), *Janis: Little Girl Blue* (2015), *Navalny* (2022) and *Sugarcane* (2024). She worked as assistant editor on eight films directed by Werner Herzog, among them *Grizzly Man* (2005) and *The White Diamond* (2004).

Hawke has also served as supervising editor on films such as *Joonam* (2023) and *A Photographic Memory* (2024), and as consulting editor on *Black Box Diaries* (2024). She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has advised at multiple Sundance Institute labs. She is from Christchurch, New Zealand, and is based in London.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, detpress.com, collab.sundance.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.md)
- *Grizzly Man* (2005), Fi1m 85, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/grizzly-man.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *How to Build a Library* (2025), Supervising Editor
- *River of Grass* (2025), Consulting Editor
- *A Want in Her* (2025), Consulting Editor
- *The Dating Game* (2025), Editorial Consultant
- *Mighty Indeed* (2025), Editorial Consultant
- *The Tallest Dwarf* (2025), Consulting Editor
- *How Deep Is Your Love* (2025), Supervising Editor
- *Black Box Diaries* (2024), Consulting Editor
- *The Shadow Scholars* (2024), Consulting Editor
- *Sugarcane* (2024), Editor
- *A Photographic Memory* (2024), Supervising Editor
- *Joonam* (2023), Supervising Editor
- *Cowboy Poets* (2022), Editor
- *Band* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Navalny* (2022), Editor
- *After A Revolution* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous* (2020), Director
- *Moon Landing Live* (2019), series, Editor
- *Freedom Fields* (2018), Editor
- *Janis: Little Girl Blue* (2015), Editor
- *Ode to the Dawn of Man* (2011), Editor
- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.md)
- *The Winter of the Beard* (2008), Writer, Editor
- *Grizzly Man* (2005), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/grizzly-man.md)
- *The White Diamond* (2004), Assistant Editor
- *Wings of Hope* (1999), Assistant Editor

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