In 2022, The New Yorker commissioned three documentaries from three filmmakers around the world. I was one of those three, and Dear Max is the result of a collaboration with The New Yorker's incredible in-house team.

Across platforms, Dear Max received close to 1m views and over 30k likes in its first week alone. After a successful festival run, including a win for Best Mini-Doc at Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Dear Max became one of the 114 films that competed for the 2024 Academy Award® for Best Documentary - Short Subject.

It goes without saying that, of all the films I’ve created, this is the most personal and important to me and my family.