Pontus Maximus Productions was founded in Macau in 2013 by writer-director Max Bessmertny with the aim of bringing unique East meets West stories to the world. The company has focused on crafting and developing these stories into screenplays and eventually into finished movies and delivering them to audiences at film festivals and markets worldwide.
From their site
Images from Pontus Maximus Productions’s own website.
Who works there
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Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.
Contact & details
How their work is rated
3 wins from 3 nominations across all awards
- Mostly
- short, comedy, drama
- Active
- 2010–2026
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 13 of 17 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Credits17
16 films
The Violin Case
2026 · Film
Produced
Dirty Laundry
2020 · Film
Produced
The Douro Boys: Winter Season
2019 · Film
Produced
Death of a Parrot
2018 · Film
Produced
Sampan
2017 · Film
Produced
The Great Debt
2017 · Film
Produced
What's Your Art?
2017 · Film
Produced
Brazilian Device
2015 · Film
Produced
Tricycle Thief
2014 · Film
Produced
Proposition
2012 · Film
Produced
Wonton
2012 · Film
Produced
- 2020
The Handover
2020
Produced
- 2013
Chin and the Mountain
2013 · Film
Produced
- 2013
The Ninth Wave
2013 · Film
Produced
- 2012
Jog
2012 · Film
Produced
- 2011
Live
2011 · Film
Produced
- 2010
Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
2010 · Film
Produced
17 titles across 17 years, averaging 1.0 a year. The last five years average 0.2 a year, below their long-run rate. 6 of those 17 years carry no credit on file. 17 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2012 (3). 1 in the last five years shown, against 7 in the five before.
Who they work with
- Max Bessmertny10
- Max Bessmertny7
- Jorge Cordeiro Dos Santos2
- Kelsey Wilhelm2
- Kelsey Wilhelm3
- Short11 of 12
- Comedy3 of 12
- Drama2 of 12
Names appearing on two or more of Pontus Maximus Productions’s produced titles, across the 12 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
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