Aiko Maya Roudette is a Caribbean filmmaker and founder/director of the Hairouna Film Festival; a Caribbean film festival based in her home country St. Vincent and the Grenadines. At 19 a scholarship sent her to New York where she obtained a Bachelor's and Master's in Film Production and Media Studies. Over the following 9 years Aiko would remain in New York studying and working as a freelance filmmaker. While in New York she collaborated with many notable artists and production companies, among which were Quest Love's Production Company OkayPlayer, and Little Monster Films, responsible for the Oscar Award Winning documentary film Free Solo (2018). During this time she worked on several international productions in Berlin, Dominica, Uganda, St. Kitts and London. In her spare time Aiko volunteered shooting and editing videos for various human rights groups and was an active member of Decolonize This Place a group that believed in 'Art and Action'; the utilisation of art to promote human rights. In 2018 Aiko moved back to St. Vincent where she would team up with other creatives to form the Hairouna Film Festival; a free, outdoor, mobile Caribbean film festival. Since the inaugural year in 2019 Hairouna Film Festival has held 3 full festival events and in 2021 with support from Soho House Group, has launched the first script writing competition to be offered to exclusively to Vincentians. The winning film Cart Man by Grace Peters-Clarke is due to be shot in July 2022. Aiko is presently working on two short documentaries and one short fiction film and is the Director of the Hairouna Film Festival. Her work has been shown in festivals and screenings in Toronto, London, Poland, New York, Trinidad, Berlin, St. Kitts, Aruba and St. Vincent.