Maggie Briggs is a filmmaker from Asheville, North Carolina. She co-wrote Saim Sadiq’s JOYLAND which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and went on to win Best International Film at the 2023 Indie Spirit Awards. With director, Samir Oliveros, she wrote
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA, premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

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As a writer/director, her features in development have been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the TIFF Writers’ Studio, where she received the CHANEL Women Writers’ Network Grant, and The Bergman Estate.