MICHAEL LUKK LITWAK is an award-winning filmmaker and ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist that was born and raised in Los Angeles. He likes to tell character-driven stories that embrace the absurd, often through a lens of classic genre-filmmaking. His first feature was ‘MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE’, a sci-fi Romantic-Comedy often described as ‘When Harry Met Sally’ meets ‘Futurama.’ ‘MOLLI AND MAX’ had its world premiere at SXSW 2023, played at BFI LONDON, Sitges, and Fantasia, was Certified Fresh (w/ 98%) on Rotten Tomatoes, was a NYT Critic’s Pick, was featured on Late Night w/Seth Meyers and was distributed theatrically on Feb 9th 2024 by Level 33 Entertainment. It stars Zosia Mamet (Girls, The Flight Attendant), Aristotle Athari (SNL, Silicon Valley), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Michael Chernus (Severance), Aparna Nancherla (BoJack Horseman), Okieriete Onaodowan (Broadway’s Hamilton), Paloma Garcia-Lee (Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story), Erin Darke (Good Girls Revolt), Grace Kuhlenschmidt (Search Party), stand-up comedian Matteo Lane and seven-time Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein (Broadway’s Moulin Rouge!). /Film declared it #4 on it’s top 10 Sci-Fi films of 2023 (behind Spiderverse, GOTG3, and Asteroid City), FilmThreat gave it a rare 9/10 and called it “a grand achievement in indie sci-fi filmmaking.” As a commercial director he’s created colorful, comedic, VFX-driven ADS & BRANDED CONTENT for SUBWAY, BURGER KING, KEYSTONE, MACY’S, VERIZON, YAHOO, APPLEBEE’S, SQUARESPACE, ELITE DAILY, VOX MEDIA, SPOTIFY, SNAPCHAT and many more. You can find all of his work at www.michaellitwak.com