Max Pugh

Max Pugh is a French-English filmmaker who divides his time between London, England and France. He was born in the North of England and studied at Durham School^[1] and the University of Leeds.

Since completing a BBC production traineeship in 2000, 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, notably with the composer Michael Nyman.

In 2003, his feature documentary The Leech and the Earthworm was successful at film festivals in many countries. That same year, The End of the Line, his fictional 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 a documentary about former child soldiers in Uganda with the Australian journalist Corrin Varady, a documentary about the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the animated feature drama/documentary adaptation of Frederic Beigbeder’s award-winning novel Windows on the World (novel) with production companies in Paris and New York.

His feature collaboration as film editor with Michael Nyman, NYman with a Movie Camera, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and Barbican Hall in London in 2010 before being moving to Turin, Sydney, Morelia and MOMA New York in 2011.

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References

1. ^ "Max Pugh". BBC Film Network. http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/users/56611157. "He was educated at Durham School and read politics at the University of Leeds." 

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4323657/Michael-Nyman-takes-a-new-route.html February 2009
• http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2010/03/18/nyman-festejara-su-cumplenos-lunario March 2010
• http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/fl-CdwjqGDJ/Talent+Lab+Michael+Nyman+2010+Toronto+International/9aKagGl8lFP/Max+Pugh September 2010