Maya Da-Rin began her career as a director with the short film documentary The Word Tilts to Here (2002), about orality in a rural community in the interior of the Minas Gerais' state, in Brazil.
After that, she shot two documentaries in the southwest of the Amazonas: Margem (2007), follows the journey of a large passenger boat from the Brazilian border to the city of Iquitos, in Peru.
Lands received the "Las Cámaras de La Diversidad" award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico), among other prizes.
[6] Event Horizon was considered by French critic Annick Rivoire "the most representative project of contemporary art" shown that year at Le Fresnoy.
It was considered by critic and programmer Diego Batlle “the most convincing debut film in Latin American cinema in recent years".