Max Barbakow

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Educated at The Thacher School, a Yale graduate who later trained with Werner Herzog in Cuba and earned an MFA in directing from the AFI Conservatory, Barbakow began his career with short films and the 2013 documentary Mommy, I'm a Bastard! about his open adoption. He achieved widespread acclaim with the time-loop comedy Palm Springs, which premiered at Sundance and secured a multi-million-dollar…