Max Walker-Silverman
Directing
Biography
He lives and works in rural Colorado where he grew up. A former community organiser and literary editor, he is an alumnus of the NYU graduate film program. His short films have won a Support the Shorts Award at SXSW and the KODAK Vision Award as well as multiple National Board of Review student grants. A Love Song is his debut feature film.
Known For
After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.
Rebuilding
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
A Love Song
A Lebanese-American teenager gets expelled from school and is forced to drive cross-country with his neurotic mother. What begins as punishment becomes the longest, funniest, and most unexpectedly meaningful trip of his life.
Hot Water
Through losing his father, a divorced cowboy learns how to be one.
Lefty/Righty
An immigrant love story set on a street corner.
Passerby
At a discreet host bar in Los Angeles, Kyeong uses his talent and charm to create the illusion of love for the women who hire him. When a new client pays him for a “2nd round,” Kyeong discovers too late that behind her kindly demeanor lies a disturbing request.
Koreatown
Speaking only his native language, a Guatemalan teenager begins his new life in rural Colorado.