Dr. Levi C. Maaia Receives Film Festival Award

Best Director – Dr. Levi C. Maaia, PhD, a local Rhode Island native and now a California film maker, received the LAIFF Award (Los Angeles International Film Festival – 2022) Saturday, August 27, 2022 on the red carpet at a Hollywood Studio. Dr. Maaia’s production company, Maaia Mark Productions, received the award for Best Feature long documentary; Best Producer(s) (Levi C. Maaia/Noah Mark) and finally, Best Original Score. It was a clean sweep.

The financing came from MIT’s Lemelson Foundation (Stephanie Couch, Executive Producer), “This Old House” on PBS and “Downton Abbey” as well.

Maaia Mark was also a semifinalist in the Rhode Island Film Festival applications where 7,000 filmmakers worldwide, like the LAIFF Festival applications, also submitted their work. Coast to Coast recognition for the Santa Barbara California-based production company of Maaia Mark. Congratulations to Dr. Levi Maaia and his entire team.

The title of the documentary “Pathways to Invention,” directed by Levi C. Maaia, explores the workshops, garages, laboratories and office accomplished inventors in fields of material, software, biotech etc. in a way to see the traits and tools of entrepreneurs. Distribution of the Pathways to Invention trailer is already online and the full featured 90-minute film will be released in the near future.