Max Myers is a British

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and

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who has been active in

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since the mid-1990s. His first feature film, ''Don't Let Go'', won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement award at the 2002

Stony Brook Film Festival The Stony Brook Film Festival, produced by Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, presents a program of new, independent films every summer since 1996. Features and short films from the U.S. and around the world are screened ove ...

in New York, the Best Picture Award at the Westchester Film Festival (NY) and a Prism Award in Los Angeles. He was the writer of the feature film

Irish Jam ''Irish Jam'' is a 2006 comedy film starring Eddie Griffin. The plot is centered on an African American who wins an Irish public house in a raffle, and has to save the village from the clutches of an evil landlord. Despite the bulk of the film bein ...

starring comedian Eddie Griffin and Anna Friel and has written a handful of violent crime novels including the award-winning, ''Boysie Blake Problem Solver''. The son of a German woman and an

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sergeant, Myers was born in Iserlohn, Germany and lived in a large number of postings during his youth including

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and

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and eventually ended up in

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where he was an amateur boxer and musician through his teens, then began working as a tour manager and sound mixer for European bands that included famous musicians from

Manfred Mann Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London and active between 1962 and 1969. The group were named after their keyboardist Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The band had two differen ...

, Mungo Jerry, Berlin Rock Ensemble, Moonraker and Wings (band).

Filmography

Feature films * " Don't Let Go" (2002) - writer, director * "

" (2006) * "Slip Tumble & Slide" (2010) - writer director Short films * "The Test Of Time" (2015) writer

Bibliography

* "Boysie Blake" (2014) - crime, suspense novel

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Max American male novelists Year of birth missing (living people) American film directors People from Iserlohn American male screenwriters Living people