Maxwell Nalevansky
Directing
Known For

Confined to a claustrophobic hotel room, the heir to a hotel empire and the dominatrix who has primed him for success become locked in a battle of wits and wills as he tries to end his relationship with her.
Sanctuary

A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.
The Requin

In a surreal small‑town version of 2007 Texas, a young graffiti artist lands in jail and is coerced into spying on his cousin—suspected by an unhinged cop of dealing nuclear weapons. What follows is a frenetic, gross‑humored ride through conspiracy, over-the-top characters, and chaotic counterculture.
RATS!

Chad Buckley is super crazy about horror movies, but also very lonely. He mostly spends his days in his small movie shop having wild discussions with his only returning customer, Sam.
Scare Package

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.
Lingua Franca

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief reunion. Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author George Saunders.
Lincoln in the Bardo

Inside a fruit themed burlesque bar, time and space take a backseat to poetry and proverb.
With Pleasure

An acerbic narrator reflects nostalgically on the profound pleasure that was afforded to him upon once being offered a free bowl of beans.
Beans.

A fantastical adventure playfully dealing with sexual politics, men’s rights groups, and good old-fashioned girl power, Jazzberry is a tale of the tragedy which befell the bizarre city of Beeftown.
Jazzberry

Noah, an infamous internet troll, who at the behest of their idol Jimmy Beast, sets off on a mission to unalive the politician who banned the social media app in which they derive all of their self-worth and identity.
HUMAN ERROR
Veiled beneath his mask, the beekeeper has never shown his scarred face to his brawny man, the man who once saved him from the brink of death, and the beekeeper must make the choice to show his face or lose his love.
A Chest of Drawers

An absurd political satire of post-9/11 American ideology.