Watching Steve Loveridge's new documentary, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., it was impossible not to be transported back to October 2004, to the very first thing that Maya Arulpragasam and I bonded over. We ...

What happens when a woman of two worlds tries to be taken seriously as both artist and mission-driven advocate? For U.K.-born-and-raised musician Matangi “Maya” Arulpragasam — better known as rapper M ...

If anyone could have been mentally prepared for M.I.A.’s savagely tepid response to his documentary about her, it’s Steven Loveridge. The soft-spoken British filmmaker and the British Tamil pop icon ...

"Whenever a celebrity makes a film about themselves, they are never going to have that objective distance from themselves," director Stephen Loveridge says of his long-awaited portrait of the ...

'MATANGI/ MAYA/ M.I.A.' is a new documentary about musician and activist M.I.A. She joins NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro to talk about the film and... 'It Never Existed Before': M.I.A. On Changing Pop And ...

Matangi “Maya” Arulpragasam thought she would be a documentary filmmaker. Now, Steve Loveridge, one of her old friends from film school, has made “Matangi/Maya ...

M.I.A. has a lot of problems with this new doc about her, but the things she doesn't like about it are the things that make it so valuable. From the moment it first screened at this year’s Sundance ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For a good while now I’ve been searching for clear footage of M.I.A.’s performance at the 2009 ...

Many labels have been applied to the work of Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known by her stage name M.I.A. She’s been described as a provocateur, an anti-establishment controversialist and, at times, ...

In the new documentary Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., director Steve Loveridge examines the development, rise and oppositional success of the... Watching Steve Loveridge's new documentary, Matangi / Maya / ...