Maximilian Law is the Founder and Director of Ferrara Film Festival. Also a film producer, screenwriter and actor.

WHO HE WORKED WITH

BIOGRAPHY

Maximilian Law in 2014 came close to get an Oscar nomination, as one of his films ("Tomorrow Will Be Another Day") was eligible by the Academy in the "Best Live Action Short Film" category. Founder of the Film Production Company Perpetuus, he works at the Ferrara Film Festival as Founder and Artistic Director since 2015.
With his previous production company, JustPressRec, which he co-founded in 2012, he produced more than 30 commercials all over the world and developed many marketing strategies for companies in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

Born in Ferrara, Italy and raised in Milan, Rome and Los Angeles, he started his acting career performing in Italian theaters since the age of 15. At the age of 24, when he moved to Los Angeles, bringing his acting career to the next level, he kept perfecting his craft in acting and screenwriting until he founded his first Production Company at the age of 29, called "The Dreamers Factory".
With the extensive experience on film and commercial sets he started writing screenplays for feature and short films under the WGA. In 2012, at the age of 31, the second film he wrote ("Engage") was in the Official Selection for the Seattle Indiflix Film Festival and then sold to an American National TV Channel ("Shorts HD" on Direct TV and AT&T Uverse). The same deal was made for two more movies he produced the following year ("Tomorrow Will Be Another Day" and "The Painter").

As he kept exploring acting roles, he found himself very comfortable interpreting comedic characters ("Il Fenomeno", "Take 6", "Ropes Of Silicon", "J+C"), and from that moment he took himself very seriously in establishing his own brand. In 2015 he opened his new Production Company, "Perpetuus", specifically conceived to develop his own film projects and the Ferrara Film Festival.  

For further info please visit his Production Company website PERPETUUS. For the complete filmography go to the FERRARA FILM FESTIVAL page.

TRIVIA

• He conceived the Ferrara Film Festival in 2013 and officially founded it in September 2015 with an unique Press Conference Show in the city of Ferrara.
• Between 2010 and 2016 he produced 8 short films (2 directed by him), 2 TV series and 1 documentary.
• He's a Black Belt in 3 different Martial Arts: JuJitsu, Aikido and Karate.
• A short film he produced, "Tomorrow Will Be Another Day", was eligible at the 2015 Academy Awards in the Best Short Film Category.
• At the age of 14, while still being in middle school, he was already a daily reader of popular show-business newspapers, such as Variety and Hollywood Reporter. That was already a premature sign of true love towards the film Industry.
• His private acting coach in Italy was the well known Gisella Burinato, former spouse of the Award winner Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio.
• In his first acting job in 1996, an Italian short film, he broke his left arm while filming a scene where he was required to jump from ramp to ramp in a parking structure.