Max Morgan
Directing
Biography
Max Morgan is a filmmaker from Suffolk. He is the writer/director of Breakwater (2025), the University of Oxford's first feature film since 1982. It was the most nominated feature at Raindance 2025, and won Best film at LIFF and NEIFF. His short film, Skelter, also won best East Anglian Film at Suffolk Shorts 2025.
Known For
Set between the sandstone colleges of Oxford and the salt-encrusted Suffolk coast, Breakwater follows the tentative romance between university student, Otto, and retired angler, John. Their lives fuse irreversibly over the shared trauma of losing a loved one, however, their relationship darkens when the past exhumes itself in the form of guilt, grief, and ghosts.
Breakwater
May Day! is a feature-length documentary which follows Oxford's thousand-year old tradition of May Morning, the largest celebration of its kind, regularly attracting over 15,000 people each year. It is a collage-like portrait of the tradition, attempting to find out how the celebration has survived the separation between the land and its people, what the pagan festival means thousands of years after its inception, and how it shapes and contributes to our nation's sense of self.
May Day!
Skelter is a coming of age drama that takes place over a day at a fairground. The film follows Nip as she spends her last day working at the show, leaving a wealth of memories, friends, and rides behind her.