Max Fey, born in Cologne in 1979, began working for the Berlin production company VCC Perfect Pictures in 2000 as an enditor for image films, commercials and music videos. He successfully applied to the Munich University of Television and Film, where he began studying directing in 2004. In 2007, he received the Kirch Foundation's Media Art Scholarship. For his short film "Soft Skills" (2009), he was awarded the prize in the category 'Best Production of a German Film' at the Filmschoolfest Munich; at the Landshut Short Film Festival 2010, the film won the Jury Prize.  

Although Fey studied directing, as of 2010 he worked exclusively as an editor. His work includes Christian Bach's family drama "Hirngespinster" ("Flights of Fancy", 2014), Jan Fehse's quirky farce "Storno: Todsicher versichert" (2015, TV), Alexander Adolph's "Der sanfte Tod" (2014) and "Taxi nach Leipzig" (2016) from the "Tatort" series, and Boris Kunz's series "Labaule & Erben" (2018). Fey has a long-standing collaboration with Philipp Leinemann, whose films "Transit" (2010), "Wir waren Könige" ("The King's Surrender", 2014), "Die Informantin" (2016, TV) and "Das Ende der Wahrheit" ("Blame Game", 2019) he edited.  

At the end of 2020, Max Fey began shooting his first feature film of his own: "Zwischen uns" ("Between Us"), a drama about a single mother and her 13-year-old autistic son, premiered at the Hof Film Festival in October 2021. The film was released in June 2022.