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Levi C. Maaia

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Levi C. Maaia
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Maaia in 2012
BornLevi Chandler Maaia
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
🏫 EducationBoston University (BS)

Emerson College (MA)

University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD)
💼 Occupation
film director, producer
📆 Years active  2015–present
👶 Children2

Levi C. Maaia is an American film director and producer, education researcher, and former telecommunications executive. He has won a number of awards including Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards for best director and best producer for Pathways to Invention (2022),[1] a documentary on inventors that was funded by the Lemelson Foundation. As a telecommunications executive at Full Channel, he advocated in support of net neutrality[2][3] and consumer price protections.[4] He also provided expert congressional testimony in support of consumer privacy[5].

Early life and education[edit]

Maaia was born in Providence, Rhode Island and grew up in neighboring East Providence, Rhode Island.[6] His father, William C. Maaia, is a Rhode Island attorney and municipal court judge who has served on the Rhode Island Board of Education and the East Providence School Committee[7][8]. His mother, Linda Jane (née Donofrio), is a retired schoolteacher and former telecommunications executive who led Full Channel from 2004 until its sale to Countrywide Broadband in 2018.[9][10]

Maaia graduated from Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island and went to Boston University, where he studied film and television. He later earned an MA in journalism at Emerson College and a PhD in education from the University of California, Santa Barbara where his doctoral research was on maker culture and invention education.[11] He has published academic research on STEM education.[12]

Career[edit]

After first getting on the air in college at Boston University's student-run radio station WTBU and later in graduate school at [KCSB-FM-en][13], Maaia began his career in television as an intern for American Experience at [WGBH-TV-en] in Boston.[14].

In 2004, upon the sudden death of his grandfather John Donofrio, the founder of Full Channel, Maaia assumed a leadership position at the company overseeing studio staff and as the voice of many local television commercials[15][16]. He then took over as Full Channel's vice president and later as president of Full Channel Labs, the organization's new technology incubator for developing streaming video technologies and enhanced telephone offerings.[17]

While at Full Channel, he produced the documentary A Beautiful Sound: RI Philharmonic (2015), a [PBS-en] special highlighting the impact of music education at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra's music school[18].

After leaving Full Channel, he joined fellow Boston University alumnus and television producer Noah Mark to form Maaia Mark Productions.[19] Together they produced and Maaia directed Pathways to Invention (2022). It premiere in Los Angeles at the Awareness Festival[20] and received numerous accolades on the independent film festival circuit including being named best documentary feature at both the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards and the Southern California Independent Film Festival[21][22][23].

Maaia is a private pilot and serves on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission.[24]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role
2022 Pathways to Invention director, producer

Television[edit]

Year Title Role
2015 A Beautiful Sound: RI Philharmonic producer


See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Pathways to Invention - IMDb, retrieved 2022-11-10
  2. ↑ "Internet rules give big business control". Boston.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  3. ↑ Stabile, Lori (2015-03-04). "Full Channel Labs says it supports net neutrality after FCC vote". Providence Business News. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  4. ↑ published, TVTechnology (2011-05-16). "Full Channel Cuts Deal with Univision to Replace WUNI". TVTechnology. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  5. ↑ "House Report 112-281 - PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INTERNET PORNOGRAPHERS ACT OF 2011". www.govinfo.gov. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Levi C. Maaia Receives Film Festival Award". Reporter Today. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  7. ↑ "Attorney William C. Maaia Sworn in as Associate Municipal Court Judge". Reporter Today. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  8. ↑ "Maaia is sworn as associate East Providence municipal court judge: Recent mayoral appointment approved by City Council". EastBayRI.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  9. ↑ "CountryWide Broadband To Acquire Full Channel, Enhance Service Offerings". www.businesswire.com. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  10. ↑ "EPHS Graduates Awarded Teacher Scholarship". Reporter Today. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  11. ↑ Maaia, Levi Chandler (2018). "The Keys to Maker Education: A Longitudinal Ethnographic Study of a STEM-to-STEAM Curriculum-in-the-Making". doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.21972.07044.
  12. ↑ Maaia, Levi C. (2019-02-15). "Inventing with Maker Education In High School Classrooms". Technology & Innovation. 20 (3): 267–283. doi:10.21300/20.3.2019.267.
  13. ↑ Jun 01, Colin Marshall Tue; 2010 | 6:00am (2010-06-01). "Morning Radio, but Interesting". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  14. ↑ "Levi C. Maaia". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  15. ↑ "Full Channel sold to St. Louis broadband acquisition company". RhodyBeat. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  16. ↑ Staff, Cablefax (2011-07-26). "Live From The Independent Show: We Are Family | Archives". Cablefax. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  17. ↑ "The Other Half of Network Neutrality - Content Neutrality". community broadband networks. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  18. ↑ "Levi C. Maaia". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  19. ↑ "About". Maaia Mark Productions. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  20. ↑ howpaul. "Awards". The Awareness Film Festival. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  21. ↑ "2022 Results". GO Film Festivals. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  22. ↑ "Winners November 2022". theindiefest.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  23. ↑ "Summer 2022 Winners". A home for your amazing films. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  24. ↑ Airport (2022-05-16). "Airport Commission". Fly SBA. Retrieved 2022-11-10.

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