Max Burbey is a New York City based creative producer and writer.

About

Max graduated from Wesleyan University in 2024 with a BA in Film Studies. Since June of 2024, he has been working as a talent coordinator and executive assistant to Emily Gerson Saines at Brookside Artist Management. He is interested in and open to all opportunities in the creative development, advertising and production.

BRIDGES (2025)

Writer, Producer, Actor

Logline: When Austin tries to reclaim his late mother’s painting from his estranged grandfather, their volatile reunion forces both men to confront buried grief and destructive habits.

Currently in a festival run, but contact me directly for a link!

GRAVEYARD (2022)

Producer

Logline: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Existing at the margins of society, a lonely, debt-ridden janitor must risk plunging back into the criminal underworld before leaving it behind entirely.

Official Selection: IndieX Fest 2022, Indie Shorts Fest 2022, LA Crime & Horror Fest 2022, Maryland International Film Fest 2022

Director of Photography

Logline: After being stood up by her blind date, a young woman finds comfort from an unexpected source.

Pw: Middletown

TUTTO PEPPE (2024)

GRIM (2019)

Director, Writer, Editor

Logline: The son of the Grim Reaper reluctantly joins the family business.

Screenwriting

I’m always writing!

Some completed projects available:

SANCTUARY (Pilot - 64 pages) Logline: When an underfunded homeless shelter faces closure, it’s well-meaning but naive co-manager reinvents himself as a charismatic preacher in a last ditch effort to save his inhabitants

TOBACCO ROAD (Feature - 105 pages) Logline: The lives of a junior tobacco executive, a discharged veteran, an ambitious ATF agent, and an American Indian converge on what they think is a routine illegal exchange of untaxed cigarettes.

Write me an email or call me:

maxburbey@gmail.com / +1 512 940 8320

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