SXSWShort of the Week
Max Distance
With Jon Daly, from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Directed by Marissa Goldman · Starring Sydney Battle, David Brown, Jon Daly, Anna Seregina · 2025
A lonely programmer in Los Angeles becomes fixated on her enigmatic neighbour through the window, and hatches a plan to meddle with his love life online.
An awkward, unsettling comedy about watching, swiping and loneliness in the screen era.
Premiered at SXSW 2025, U.S. director Marissa Goldman constructs a story of obsession, isolation, and dating in the digital world for the short film Max Distance. Shot in Los Angeles with actor-comedians Anna Seregina an
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