Max Lauren
Director - Writer - Photographer
Film Writing/ Directing
Commercial Direction
Concert Photography
Portraits
Event Photography
and Photojournalism
Recent Awards
MESSY. Best Weird/ WTF Film & Best Jewish Film- Cannes World 2021
MESSY. Finalist- Indie Short Fest 2021 and Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2022
MESSY. Best Director of a Student Short - Seattle Film Festival 2022
Kachel Writers Prize 2018
Published Writing
The Brown and White
Authored a bi-weekly music column, Musical Maxims, which reported on concerts in the tristate area and explored Lehigh students’ musical preferences, gaining a deeper understanding of which factors make people gravitate towards certain genres
Elite Daily
Cultural Insight to Reykjavik, Iceland
Performed field and additional research for a travel publication on the country of Iceland. I wrote a chapter on the entertainment industry in Iceland— specifically the live music scene, street art, filming locations used in popular media, and Reykjavik’s booming vinyl record business.
More About Max Lauren
Max Lauren grew up as a Jewish, brace-faced, Harry-Potter-glasses-wearing, self-identified tomboy *cringe* on the glamorous North Shore of Long Island. While she hated it at the time, the experience has given her a lifetime’s worth of tragically comical material to pull from.
She lived her childhood as if she was already an in-demand Hollywood writer/director. Between writing additional episodes of her favorite TV shows that ended, such as Full House, and directing elaborate music videos with friends and family— there was never a question about where Max’s passions laid.
She graduated from Lehigh University with a BA in journalism and a double minor in psychology and creative writing, since one discipline was not enough to satisfy her inquisitive nature (or her ADHD). After graduation, she moved to Southern California to complete an MFA in Film Production with an emphasis in directing from Chapman University.
Max writes and directs films that are MAXimalist in style, but earnest in content. Movies that are not bound by genre; instead, films that focus on developing fully fleshed characters relearning facets of life they staunchly thought to be true.
