TALENT NIGHT AT AUSCHWITZ: BUNK FIVE

A 14-year-old boy escapes from modern and historical traumas to a glittering, musical dreamworld.

Director Bio

Max Rifkind-Barron is a queer, Jewish filmmaker from Los Angeles. He wrote and produced the short film Pipe Dream, an unconventional coming-of-age story, which was acquired by Warner Brothers Television and is in development as a digital series. He produced Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily, a feature-length comedy starring Molly Shannon as the poet Emily Dickinson, now in theaters nationwide. He currently works as a staff writer at Bazelevs Company, producers of Unfriended and Searching. He holds an MFA and BA in Film from Columbia University.

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