April • 2020
Great to work with Max. A thoroughly professional shooter, excellent communicator throughout. Max found case studies and delivered high quality footage on a sensitive story.
Madrid, Spain
2 reviews$500 - $1500 / Day
Max Duncan is a filmmaker, director of photography and journalist. His work has appeared on media including the BBC, PBS, VICE, The Guardian, The New York Times and Al Jazeera. Based in Madrid, he previously lived and worked in China for a decade, first as a video journalist for Reuters news agency and then as an independent filmmaker. His work has received recognition including World Press Photo, Webby and One World Media awards, and support from Pulitzer, Ford Foundation and IDA. He is fellow of Yaddo and Logan Non-fiction programs. His feature documentary on Chinese investment in Ethiopia - which has appeared at markets including Sheffield Doc/Fest, IDFA, and Hot Docs - will release in 2024. He speaks fluent Mandarin and Spanish.
April • 2020
Great to work with Max. A thoroughly professional shooter, excellent communicator throughout. Max found case studies and delivered high quality footage on a sensitive story.
I produced, filmed, edited and translated for this Wall Street Journal profile of Prof. Xiaoping Ren, a Chinese microsurgeon who has successfully completed head transplants in mice.
A mini-doc on the efforts to save the critically endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise I directed and shot for Al Jazeera Earthrise.
A short film I produced, shot, edited for the Wall Street Journal. China's steel industry is rarely associated with beauty, but over 500 years ago, blacksmiths in the rustbelt province of Hebei produced a unique art form that still dazzles each Chinese New Year.
China's economic miracle is under threat from a slowing economy and a dwindling labour force. A documentary I shot for the Financial Times in China and Vietnam investigates how the world's most populous country has reached a critical new chapter in its history. Narrated by Jamil Anderlini, co-produced by Ben Marino. Copyright: The Financial Times Ltd
A Webby Award-winning interactive documentary I shot for the Guardian. Ahead of the crucial 2015 climate change talks in Paris, environmental correspondent John Vidal and I travelled through the Mekong countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam seeing the ecological havoc wreaked by climate change, big dams, deforestation and urbanisation.
An interactive documentary I shot for the Guardian investigates the human consequences of China's addiction to coal. We travelled through northwest China seeing landscapes scarred by coal mining and ravaged by desertification, and meeting families broken by black lung disease and displacement.
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