April Maxey

BIOGRAPHIE

April Maxey was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and is currently based in Los Angeles. In 2020, April was 1 of 8 Directors chosen to be a part of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute in Film/Video. Her narrative writing & directing credits include short films Polaroid Girl, Same Same, This Is You And Me, & After You Left. Her short work has collectively screened at over 60 festivals across 14 countries and won 8 awards internationally, such as the 100Autori Award for Best Screenplay at the Sicilia Queer Film Fest in Italy, and Best International Narrative Short at Kashish Mumbai Queer Film Festival in India for her 2012 short Polaroid Girl. April was also a guest writer/director on the lesbian web series Same Same. Her episodes premiered at Newfest in 2016. April was selected as 1 of 9 directors to participate in the prestigious Berlinale Talents Short Film Station at the Berlinale International Film Festival in 2015, to develop the screenplay for her project This Is You And Me. Her screenplay Work, a one hour drama pilot, was a top 5 finalist in the 2019 New Orleans Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Her 2019 short film, After You Left won the Shorts Jury Prize at the Milwaukee Film Festival and has screened at Academy and BAFTA-Qualifying festivals such as Palm Springs Int’l Shortfest, Flickerfest, HollyShorts, as well as Outfest Fusion, Newfest, and Wicked Queer Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHIE