FILM TYPE:

Short

SYNOPSIS

In a final effort to curb her pill-popping, Nicki has been sent to stay with her aloof uncle Paxton in rural New England. Forced to spend her first day building a bed frame with him, Nicki will do anything to score some drugs...Including seduce the neighbor who mows the backyard.

DIRECTOR BIO

Max received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in anthropology and filmmaking. He is currently an MFA Candidate at Columbia University.

His work often explore social malady and centers the burnouts and weirdos of the American wasteland. His films have screened at dozens of festivals including the Palm Springs International ShortFest, Nashville Film Festival, and Frameline International Film Festival and have premiered on NoBudge and PBS. He is a 2021 Reykjavík Talent Lab alum and has previously worked for the good people at Oscilloscope Laboratories, Strand Releasing, and Flies Collective.

When he was seven he tried to cut off most of his hair with pink child scissors.

DIRECTOR STATEMENT

Nicki, Apart began with the darkly comic perversities that permeated the suburbs I came of age in. Our parents were always gone, there were always prescription pills around, and there was always something eating at us inside. This nascent ennui amidst the opioid epidemic created a world where teenagers fell to pieces. I was one of them. Nicki is one of them. Her character is my way of exploring the worst parts of ourselves. It’s an intimate character study of a girl running across a tight-rope, enthralled by the fact that she just might fall.