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Max Rissman

Writer/director

Cognitive Dissonance

Available To Work February 5, 2023

Bio

Max Rissman is a writer and director whose first feature film, UPON WAKING, won the Alternative Spirit award at the 2023 Rhode Island Film Festival. His digital series ROOT FOR THE VILLAIN was an official selection of the 2018 Austin Film Festival and Bentonville Film Festival, and his screenplay HIT ME HARDER was featured on the 2020 GLAAD List, an award presented at the Sundance Film Festival by The Black List and GLAAD. After attending college at Washington University in St. Louis and completing New York University’s MFA program in filmmaking, he has been creating elevated genre stories that explore deep questions about spiritual healing and self-acceptance. He currently works as a staff writer for Pocket FM, a fiction podcast company.

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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Writer, Writer/Director

Projects

Animation, Feature, Film

Genres

Animated, Drama, Dramedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Young Adult

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Roadmap Writers

Education

Washington University in St. Louis, BA, New York University, MFA

Locations

New York

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