About

Max Levine is a 2014 Film Production graduate of the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Max lives in Brooklyn, NY where he works as a contract Video Editor at Lemonlight, an ad agency in Southern California, where he edits and creates commercial content for a variety of companies and institutions.

His work has been featured on Cracked, Troma, CollegeHumor, Baltimore CityPaper, Tremendo Garaje, Budget Blinds and DoYouRemember.

As a Baltimore native, Max got his start at Across the Bridge (ATB) Productions, a freelance production studio in Baltimore, MD where he edited and created content for companies like Comcast, the American Heart Association, the Greater Washington Urban League, Walker & Dunlop, Sagewater, Booz Allen and Agora, among many others.

He was a former film critic/writer for the Baltimore Citypaper from 2014-2016 and also directed/edited five news videos for their website. He is the former Director/Co-Founder/Programmer of the 2018 and 2019 Baltimore Comedy SketchFest and the former Co-Programmer of "Sketchup House Party", an online stay-at-home video sketch comedy festival. He is also a contributing editor for Everything is Terrible, an online cult found-footage collective.

His most recent short film, “To Moher,” is a comedy travelogue short he filmed, wrote, edited, directed and starred in on a solo trip to Ireland in September 2022. It was an Official Selection in the 2023 Anomaly Rochester Genre Film Festival, Bizarroland Film Festival and the Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival. Another short he co-directed/co-wrote, "Crunchatized" (made entirely in quarantine), was awarded "Best Comedy" in the 2020 IAHFF Film Festival and "Best Mockumentary" at the 2020 Austin Battle of the Sketches. His 2018 short film, "Seafood Diet" won "Best Dark Comedy Short" at the 2018 Avalonia Festival and has been an Official Selection in 24 film festivals including the 2018 Panic Fest, Shock Stock, Genreblast, Texas Terrors and Killer Valley.

He currently performs stand-up comedy all over Brooklyn, and creates sketch comedy with his group, “MMA Clips and Highlights.” His new short, “When Jacob Jinkers Came to Town” is in post-production and plans to release in film festivals in Spring 2024.