Max Allman is a filmmaker and editor from down south, currently based in North Carolina and Brooklyn.
He recently completed work as the editor, co-writer, and co-executive producer on REN FAIRE, a 3-part documentary fantasia from HBO and Elara Pictures. More recently, he is an executive producer on As We Speak, a documentary on hip-hop and the criminal justice system, premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Before that, he edited jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, a documentary film series about Kanye West for Netflix that was nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Series at the 2022 Emmys. He also he edited, co-wrote, and co-produced Socks On Fire, winner of Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and 2020 IDA Award Nominee for Best Writing and was the consulting editor on Jessica Beshir’s documentary debut, Faya Dayi, winner of the Truer than Fiction award at the 2022 Spirit Awards.
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