Max Barbakow

Max Barbakow is a director and writer in Los Angeles CA Max earned his MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory trained with Werner Herzog at Escuela Internacional de CineTV in Cuba and is a graduate of Yale University Palm Springs his narrative feature debut premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by NEON and Hulu He also wrote and directed Mommy Im a Bastard 2013 an autobiographical feature documentary about his adoption