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. For two years, he worked as a talent coordinator and executive assistant to Emily Gerson Saines at Brookside Artist Management, where he worked with clients such as Sebastian Stan and Kieran Culkin.

Now he is a freelance film producer with Seven8, writer, and talent manager, working with Luminary Partners.

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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