Producer of
FREMD
Max Milhahn was born in Munich in 1980. After graduating from high school in 2000 he worked as production-assistant and production manager on film and TV productions in Munich, Berlin, Vienna and Quito.
In 2005 he began his studies in film production at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy. Upon achieving his intermediate diploma he switched over to the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), where he graduated in 2012.
Supported by a scholarship of the GWFF – Gesellschaft zur Wahrung von Film- und Fernsehrechten mbH he took part in the summer course Producing for Film and Television at Tisch School of the Arts/New York University in 2008. In 2009 he received a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program DAAD and spent three month in Buenos Aires to study Spanish at University of Buenos Aires.
Since 2009 he works as producer for Telekult Film- und Medienproduktion GmbH in Berlin. In 2010 he took part in the Documentary Campus Masterschool and in 2011 in the Crossing Borders Program.
Selected Filmography:
DANCING ALONE, Documentary, 98min., 2012 (DOK Leipzig 2012), FOREIGN, Documentary, 92min., 2011 (amongst others: Filmwoche Duisburg 2011, VIENNALE 2012), LADIES OF FORTUNE, Documentary, 80min., 2011 (New Berlin Film Award for Best Documentary 2011, nominated for First Steps Award 2011), I HAVE TO REJUVINATE MYSELF ARTISTICALLY, Short, 12min., 2010 (amongst others: Berlin IFF - Berlinale Shorts, 2010), OVER THE THRESHOLD, Documentary, 62min., 2007 (amongst others: Producers Award at the Sehsüchte Festival Potsdam 2007), CIVILLIANS ON THE BATTLEFIELD, Documentary, 86min., 2006 (amongst others: Mar del Plata IFF, 2007), FIRN, Short, 40min., 2006 (amongst others: Cannes IFF - Cinefondation, 2006)