Max Rudenko was born in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the School of Cinema and Television in 2009, where he studied documentary film directing. He continued to study at the Gerasimov State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), the Cinema¬tography Department and graduated in 2015. He lives in Ukraine and works as a documentary film director, cinema-tographer, and producer. In 2020, he formed an independent production company PARADOX Film, based in Ukraine and focused on the production of documentaries.