Max Millies

Max Millies

After mucking about on film sets for a while in his early 20s, Max initially gave up his plan of becoming a director around 2004 and landend where most disillusioned artsy types end up: in advertising.

Cut to 10 years later, which he spent as a writer and creative director at agencies such as Jung von Matt Berlin, Mother New York and BBDO New York, when he gets an off-chance to direct a small spot for the even smaller smoothie company True Fruits. It wins a Cannes Lion, he quits his agency job and goes back to plan A.

Since then, he has been living the dream, fathered 2 children and lost a hell of a lot of pitches. He also won a few jobs for clients like Netflix, Vodafone, The North Face and Haribo and picked up a couple of Lions, Clios and Pencils.

Oh, although he doesn’t like to be pigeonholed and is happy to apply pressure to other emotional glands, Max is primarily a comedy director. Which is a joke because he’s German