In 2017 Maxim worked with Professor Amelia Oldfield of Anglia Ruskin University, to record a series of meetings that she held with families who had received music therapy in 2000-2002. Although the original intention was to document these sessions for teaching purposes the project turned into the successful and groundbreaking OPERATION SYNCOPATION, a feature-length documentary about the effectivess of music therapy for young children with autism.

OPERATION SYNCOPATION screened at the 2017 Cambridge Film Festival and won the Silver Punt Audience Award for best Feature Documentary, and has since been screened at music therapy conferences in London, Cambridge, Dallas and Wurzburg.

Since 2016 Maxim has worked with film composer and writer Neil Brand (Sound of Cinema, BBC Four) to create the popular YouTube channel NEIL’s BELLS AND WHISTLES, exploring how film music works.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NeilBrandsBellsandWhistles/

A song written and recorded in lockdown. Video edited by Max

Made in 2018/19

Two wives make their husbands hang to pursue in a supposed shared hobby, with mixed results.

A zero-budget film shot three years ago over 5 days, completely improvised on the day edited and put together during the covid-19 lockdown

Age-restricted so you have to watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fzPqfOAHqQ

Made at University on the back of a £1000 Kickstarter. A disturbing examination of the psychological decay of an isolated undergraduate. Filmed entirely from the viewpoint of the main character’s laptop screen in his increasingly squalid room the film anticipated UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING by portraying a life lived online through a screen.

It’s age-restricted so you have to go to YouTube to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRxY5yHq2Q

Two films about a video store

Part Two

My first feature documentary, Operation Syncopation, won the  Silver Punt, the Audience Award for best Feature Documentary,  at the 2017 Cambridge Film Festival.