Under the Tree

Directed by Maxx Evan

Type of Project: Drama
Length: 17:57 minutes
Producer: Celeste Erlander
Editor: Taylor Schafer
Cinematographer: Kelly Wurtz

While mourning the death of her daughter, a woman falls in and out of reality as she tries to make sense of what happened.

Undergraduate
mbe244@nyu.edu

Maxx Evan recently graduated New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Cinema Studies and Film & Television. As a student, Maxx became passionate about production design, designing over a dozen student films and starting NYU Tisch's first art direction and production design club. Additionally, for the past two summers Maxx was the Super TA for Tisch's groundbreaking First Person Narrative program that worked with students from The Ghetto Film School. After returning this summer from assistant directing a freelance travel docu-show in Europe, Maxx began working at Def Jam Recordings in the brand strategy & content department, assisting the VPs of content creation. Maxx would like to thank the support of all his friends and family in making this film, as well as Rick Litvin for the privilege of being his student.