Max Kassun

Max Kassun was born in Lübeck. Legends say having a movie camera in his hand. In 2012 his first short film "We Told You" won the category "Youth" of the Camgaroo Award 2012 in Munich, when he was only 14 years old. In the next year he shot his short film "Day in the Forest", as well as his first cartoon short film with the title "Hazuru" In 2014 he produced his first longer film with crowdfunding - the 30-minute road movie "Road to Latokya", starring the German film award winner Gerhard Olschewski. In the same year he participated in the program "Young Nordic Filmmakers" of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, shooting the short documentary "House of Puppets / House of Puppets "about the Lübeck Marionette Museum. "Road to Latokya" premiered successfully in the sold-out Geisler Theater in Lübeck in 2015, when he was 17 years old. In 2015 his new, experimental short film "Mommark" won the Youth Film Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Youth Film Festival in Kiel. A year later "Mommark" was screened as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Film Festival in the Young talent program. His short film "Spacehead" was nominated for the Camgaroo Award 2016 in the Category "Young Short Film" and screened on the Hrizantema Short film festival in Serbia, as well as the Baltic Film Art Festival in Neustadt. In 2017 he founded Studio Nordlicht GmbH, a film production company in Hamburg, working for various clients like the Sparkasse, IKEA and many big companies. Then his new short film "Kunstkörper" won the 3rd audience award at the Harzmovienale 2020. Limited by the corona restrictions, he produced his short film "Valentina & Ally" alone, without a film crew and with only two actresses. As a curator, he founded the 1st Nordlicht Kurzfilmfest, a film festival for young filmmakers from the north of Germany.