"Thank you so much! We love the video – it is fantastic. We will certainly be raving about it.”
- Marianne & Elizabeth, Married Couple

"I was struck by the variety of angles, and how you managed to catch key moments by being in the right place at the right time.”
- B, Poet and Writer

"Thank you for your patience, your calmness, your focused attention towards your work during the launch of this project, and for making and taking the time to be available for us.”
- Farah Zeb, Project Manager, Asian Women’s Helpline

"Having just completed a film project in Burkina Faso with Mayyasa, I would warmly recommend her to anyone looking for a film maker with empathy and insight. She remains calm in all situations, and works with a diligent and professional attitude.”
- Julia Guest, Freelance Journalist and Filmmaker

“We use the video all the time! It’s fantastic! It’s our main marketing tool and we also use it for training purposes. We show it to everyone from the local authority to planning students. Everyone loves it. It’s color and dynamism brilliantly convey the ethos of our project.

Mayyasa made a potentially dull subject into a fun and engaging video, which was on time and on budget as well! She has an eye for good material and her relaxed style brings out the best in the people she videos.“
- Clare Symonds, Community Participation Officer, East Oxford Action

" Mayyasa’s unobtrusive style of camera-work, founded on sensitivity to the technical, aesthetic and political issues associated with the medium, helped to demystify this largely male-dominated technology. The process of being filmed, then viewing the rushes, was in itself validation for women generally denied access to broadcast media. It seemed to increase the personal sense of self-worth of individual women and, importantly, to help to affirm and reinforce the nascent collective identity of the group. Mayyasa experimented to find techniques appropriate to the emerging culture of our camp, thus enhancing the atmosphere of safety by affording women increased opportunities for self-definition and self-representation.

The video chronicle is valuable in that it achieves a more comprehensive and more objective record of events than could a written account, audio tapes, photos etc. It is useful not only as a ‘souvenir’ but also as an evaluation aid and potentially as a promotional tool.

We would very much hope to be able to work with Mayyasa again in the future, and would have no hesitation in recommending her to anyone planning a similar venture.”
- Rachel Auckland, Community Development Worker

."Mayyasa is a warm and friendly person of great sensitivity and creativity. These qualities show in her work; she manages to be unobtrusive but present whilst filming, uses the camera imaginatively and is supportive to those she works with. Her camera work and pictures are of consistently high quality.

Last year we worked together on ‘Soya Suzie and the Gene Dictators’ – a participatory opera about genetic engineering – and ‘Earthsong’, an environmental arts project with primary schools. Mayyasa’s films of these projects, as well as being lovely to watch are proving an invaluable means of communicating ideas about our work to potential partners and funders. Mayyasa is an asset to any project involving film and I would recommend her without hesitation.”
- Camilla Saunders, Composer and Community Artist