Max received a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her script "My Back Yard" and won the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Award for Excess Baggage, a script produced by Columbia Pictures.
Max received a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her script "My Back Yard". In 1994, she won the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Award for Excess Baggage, a script that was purchased and produced by Columbia Pictures.