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Making Maya tells the intimate story of a high school senior’s coming-of-age as she confronts the challenges of love and life after graduation.

Maya (Amy Minderhout), a beautiful high school graduate, dreams of a career in basketball. Along with her best friend Mars (Desmond Faison), she trains like there's no tomorrow. However, with an alcoholic mother (Sam Gros), an unsuccessful dating life, and many denied basketball scholarships, Maya finds herself at a low point in her life. With the help of Mars, Maya decides to enter with him a local hoops contest that could possibly be the break she needs. But then, her life takes a turn with the arrival of Sam (Sara Taylor), a sexy college girl who sparks unexpected desires of romance and sexuality in Maya. As Maya spends more time with Sam, her practicing sessions with Mars start to slack, putting the basketball contest and her life's dream at risk. To complicate matters further, Mars reveals his secret crush on her, prompting Maya to make some serious decisions about love, life and basketball. This tender and delicately weaved story provides a close and down-to-earth look at a young woman’s journey of self-realization, and comes most alive with the memorable soundtrack that Arab-American writer and director Rolla Selbak, notably, composed several of its catchiest tunes.

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DVD : $22.49

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Region Code: 1
UPC: 880799001491

Studio : Victory Multimedia

Languages: English Dolby Digital (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen

Customer Reviews

Confronting Romance

Amos Lassen wrote on 05/07/2009:

“Making Maya”

Confronting Romance

Amos Lassen

Maya (Amy Minderhout) is Maya, a high school senior who realizes that with graduation she must face life. She is slim and blonde and very pretty. She plays basketball like a boy and she trains daily. Her best friend and fellow athlete, Mars (Desmond Faison) talks her into entering a free throw contest with him and she knows that the contest could eventually lead to a career in basketball.
When she is off of the court, Maya’s life is not so good. Her mother is an alcohol and barely functions. Maya’s friends try to run her life for her and only when an older woman comes onto the scene does Maya begin to examine herself. Maya finds herself attracted to the new female. What could have been an interesting film vacillates between teenage angst and an attention holding drama and when the film is intimate it is very, very good.
Minderhout carries the movie but there is just too much talking going on. The pacing also varies and the film just does not make it to what it could have been. That’s too bad because there is promise here/