Max Clendaniel is an award winning comedy director & writer whose work has played at BFI, LADbible, British Comedy Guide and Pulped.

His previous short, ‘Nonsense’ screened at over 20 film festivals including the Academy Qualifying, Hollyshorts. It was bought by the BFI and can be seen on their platform here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-nonsense-2014-online

Max's scripts led to numerous projects including writing a TV pilot as part of the BBC Writersroom scheme. His short script, ‘Sinking Ship’ made the semi finals of the BBC Interconnected competition which had almost 7,000 applicants.

His sketch, ‘Scream Box’ made with the sketch group, Box of Charms, won the British Comedy Guide Video Contest. His follow up sketch, ‘WrkOut’ was a finalist for the Chorts! competition with Comedy Crowd and shortlisted for the BCG Production Awards.

He would continue to collaborate on more sketches working with the comedy duo, Bab. Their sketch, ‘Where’s Your Bag?’ won the Comedy Shorts Award at the Funny Women Awards and premiered at London Short Film Festival.

He would continue to work in sketch comedy, directing/co-writing 40 sketches for Pulped which accrued over 3 million views.

His next short, ‘Fluff’ won the audience award at the BIFA qualifying Sunderland Film Festival. It also recently screened at the BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival before it’s initial release on Omeleto.

He has recently finished his next film, ‘Scrape’ featuring ‘Black Mirror’ star Laura Evelyn and ‘A Kind of Spark’ actress Eve Midgley. Written by BAFTA winner Julie Bower.