Max Levine

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 also a Communications Associate for The Park School of Baltimore.

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 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. He is currently writing a feature adaptation of this short.

Another short he co-directed/co-wrote, "Crunchatized" (made entirely in quarantine) with Alex Schulman, 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. It is currently available for streaming on TROMANow.

His newest short “When Jacob Jinkers Came to Town” (another directing/writing collaboration with Alex Schulman) made its festival debut in July 2024. It has since been selected in the 2024 Buffalo International Film Festival, Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival, Hudson Valley Film Festival and New/Next. It received an “Honorable Mention” for the Audience Award at 2024’s PackFest.

He currently performs stand-up comedy all over Brooklyn, and creates sketch comedy with his group, “MMA Clips and Highlights.”