April • 2020
Great to work with Max. A thoroughly professional shooter, excellent communicator throughout. Max found case studies and delivered high quality footage on a sensitive story.
Max D.
London, UK
2 reviews$500 - $1500 / Day
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I'm an award-winning direcror, DoP and journalist making short- and long-form documentaries, news and reportage for a wide range of broadcast and online media including PBS, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and New York Times. After a decade in China and seven years in Madrid, I work internationally from London, using experience in complex and often hostile environments to tell human-centred stories that are urgent but intimate. I have received recognition including a World Press Photo Award; my first feature film as director Made in Ethiopia received the Special Jury Mention at Tribeca Festival. I also produce commercial work for clients including Canon and Intel, the UN agencies and other non-profits. I shoot, handle sound, produce, edit and drone, and have hostile environments training/experience. I speak fluent Mandarin and Spanish, and rusty french. I have full gear including Canon C300 mkii and Sony A7iii and lenses, Mavic 2 Pro drone, microphones and three-point lighting kit.
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Produced for The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal: Surgery’s Far Frontier: Head Transplants
I produced, filmed, edited and translated for this Wall Street Journal profile of Prof. Xiaoping Ren, a Chinese microsurgeon who has successfully completed head transplants in mice.
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - News
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Sound Mixer
Produced for Al Jazeera English - Digital
Saving the Yangtze Finless Porpoise - Al JAzeera Earthrise
A mini-doc on the efforts to save the critically endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise I directed and shot for Al Jazeera Earthrise.
- Documentary DP
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Sound Mixer
Produced for The Wall Street Journal
Dazzling Poor Man’s Fireworks in a Chinese Steel City - Wall Street Journal
A short film I produced, shot, edited for the Wall Street Journal. China's steel industry is rarely associated with beauty, but over 500 years ago, blacksmiths in the rustbelt province of Hebei produced a unique art form that still dazzles each Chinese New Year.
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - News
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Sound Mixer
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Produced for The Guardian
The Coal Boom Choking China - Guardian Interactive
An interactive documentary I shot for the Guardian investigates the human consequences of China's addiction to coal. We travelled through northwest China seeing landscapes scarred by coal mining and ravaged by desertification, and meeting families broken by black lung disease and displacement.
- Documentary DP
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Sound Mixer
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Produced for The Guardian
Mekong: A River Rising
A Webby Award-winning interactive documentary I shot for the Guardian. Ahead of the crucial 2015 climate change talks in Paris, environmental correspondent John Vidal and I travelled through the Mekong countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam seeing the ecological havoc wreaked by climate change, big dams, deforestation and urbanisation.
- Documentary DP
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Drone Operator
- Sound Mixer
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Produced for Financial Times
The End of the Chinese Miracle - FT Documentary
China's economic miracle is under threat from a slowing economy and a dwindling labour force. A documentary I shot for the Financial Times in China and Vietnam investigates how the world's most populous country has reached a critical new chapter in its history. Narrated by Jamil Anderlini, co-produced by Ben Marino. Copyright: The Financial Times Ltd
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- Drone Operator
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