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Max Zahle is a student filmmaker who has a movie showing at Sundance this weekend. But that’s not all. He just found out the movie “Raju” is also nominated for an Oscar.
Max came on Good Things Utah to talk about “Raju” and his accomplishments. He says “Raju” was shot in Calcutta and is about illegal ways of adoption and child trafficking.
After his graduation in 1997, Max Zähle moved to Hamburg for a film internship. He worked as location manager and first assistant director on various film sets. At the same time, he studied audio and visual media communication at the Hamm – University in Hamburg from which he graduated in 2002.
Subsequently he successfully completed an apprenticeship as film editor at the Handelskammer Hamburg. Since 2004, Max Zähle has been working as freelance film editor and director for diverse commercials, video clips and short movies. 2008 – 2010 he was studying film directing; in the graduate program at the Hamburg Media School (M.A.).
You can see “Raju” on Saturday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m. at Mountain Vinyard, 1401 Kearns Blvd. in Park City. For more information on “Raju” go to:http://www.raju-film.com/.