Maxine Trump
Maxine Trump is the award-winning director of the New York Times Critics’ Pick “Musicwood”, and the first English feature documentary on the subject — aiming to dispel the myth that living childfree is weird, selfish or somehow wrong, “To Kid or Not to Kid.” Her film bravely plunges into an aspect of reproductive choice often misunderstood, mischaracterized, or considered too taboo to discuss. With rising public awareness about climate change, resource scarcity and global population, this film asks the question "Why can't we talk about not having children?” Maxine worked for the BBC in London for seven years as a development executive for scripted comedy before emigrating to the USA, working as a TV commercial director and producer for eight years. She won BDA awards for her work on numerous commercial projects for Network TV and agency clients. She went on to direct documentaries for Sundance, TNT, BBC, TLC, Discovery etc. Her previous feature film “Musicwood” was a New York Times Critics pick, festival award winner and played on TV and in theaters around the world. Maxine is the author of the books "The Documentary Filmmakers Roadmap" published by Routledge, and “Making a Scene in Documentary Film” published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, with a release date of 30 December 2022. She is a Sundance advisor and teaches documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and inquisitive cat, and is always seeking new stories to tell.
