Talent Guide

Peter Maestrey

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2017, Producing Lab 2016

Bio

Peter Maestrey is an award-winning producer and a long-time DGA Assistant Director who hopes to create films that make a difference while finding entertainment in the simplicities of being human. Over the past twenty years, he has worked for large corporations, such as The Weinstein Company, Oprah Winfrey Network, MTV, Anonymous Content and many other industry leaders. In 2004, he joined the first ever feature narrative to have been filmed in Havana, Cuba during the embargo, “Love and Suicide.” During 2011 to 2014, he was invited by the Sundance Institute to support their annual Directors Labs, where he held the title of Crew Chief and collaborated with many Directors inside their fellowship. In 2015, he went on to produce “Where We Begin” with HIKARI and soon after reshaped his company Kamma Pictures to be a vehicle to produce films. In 2016 he was selected to participate as a Fellow in the 2016 Film Independent Producing Lab for “Cantering” with creative partner HIKARI. “Cantering” will be his first narrative feature film as a producer from creative to post.

Current Project

Cantering (Drama)

Logline

When Yuma, a naive paraplegic comic book artist, chooses to animate in the adult comic book world, she discovers a new purpose in life and embarks on a romance with a mysterious wheelchair taxi driver.