Max Disgrace

Max Disgrace

Director · Producer

Biography

Max Disgrace is an award-winning film director, a film programmer and trans man of Chinese descent, living in London. Max’s body of work has focused on the politics of queer sexual intimacies between marginalised bodies. Dismantle Me builds on this - focussing on nuanced experiences of romantic pleasure and desire between trans characters in narrative fiction. Max also desires to make work about the current crisis facing trans people in the UK. His previous short film Ruptured premiered on underground film platform 4:3 Boiler Room, for which he was awarded the Wahala Film Fund grant – for Queer, Transgender and Intersex People of Colour filmmakers. Last year Max also collaborated with Trans+ On Screen when he organised the ‘Trans Film Pitch’ event with BFI Flare, where 15 trans and non-binary filmmakers were selected from an open call to pitch their films to an audience of industry professionals.

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Representative Works

Kitchen Talk
Kitchen Talk
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/ German
Ruptured
Ruptured
10.0
/ XX
Dismantle Me
Dismantle Me
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/ English
Tribute
Tribute
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/ German
Crystal Clear
Crystal Clear
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/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Ruptured
2021Winner

Best Director

Ruptured

Dismantle Me
2023Nominee

Best Director

Dismantle Me

Tribute
2017Nominee

Best Director

Tribute

Career Highlights

Crystal Clear
2017Highlight

Best Director

Crystal Clear

Girls on Film 2: Before Dawn
2017Highlight

Best Director

Girls on Film 2: Before Dawn

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