Mayu is a native of Japan who left home at the age of sixteen to study in London. In 1995, she came to the United States to study for her MA in Literature at Columbia University. Currently, she is in the graduate film program at NYU. Her first film, Shadows, appeared in the Independent Feature Film Market and the New York International Film Festival in 1997. Her second film, Eclipse, appeared in the 1998 Taos Talking Picture Film Festival. Currently, she is finishing a feature-length screenplay entitled Philomela’s Song and editing a documentary about a white single mother raising two Chinese girls entitled Seeds from a Silent Tree. She is also working on a short film with designed Liliana Ordas-Casabl for Morgrane Le Fay in Soho.