Max Pugh

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Max Pugh is a young French-English filmmaker based in London, England. He is bilingual, speaking fluent English and French.

He has directed documentaries on a number of subjects, from arts and music to geopolitical issues for the BBC and Channel Four. He is associated with Yeast Films (www.yeastculture.com), a group of filmmakers and video artists that has recently released four documentaries for theatrical distribution as well as music videos for live stage shows and for art installations.

In 2003, his feature documentary "The Leech and the Earthworm" was quite successful at film festivals in many countries. That same year,"The End of the Line", his fiction short (made with the help of The UK Film Council New Cinema Fund, Screen East and Tilt Films) which starred Miriam Margolyes and David Oyelowo was nominated for best short at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival and selected for several other international festivals.

In 2005, he directed the short psychological drama "Blackout", as well as other documentary films. He is now working on the animated feature drama/documentary adaptation of Frederic Beigbeder’s award-winning novel Windows on the World (novel). The project began pre-production in September of 2007. It is a co-production between Darren Bender’s company Bigger Pictures and a Paris company called TheFilm.