Maria Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian actor and filmmaker specialising in independent films and micro-budget filmmaking.

Her feature action thriller Echo 8, produced on a $10,000 budget, is Australia's first female-led action movie. It has already won several awards. Maria is set to begin production on the next two films in the Echo 8 trilogy, Five By Five and Echo 8 Beyond, which received over two-and-a-half times its funding goal on Indiegogo.