Biography
Max Koepke is an American film and television editor. He began his career as an in-house editor at Modernista on accounts including Hummer and Cadillac, later cutting a U2 music video. He spent eight years at the editorial house Lost Planet, working under editor Hank Corwin on commercials for clients such as Nike, Google, Gatorade and Jack Daniel’s.
Koepke subsequently joined Exile before returning to Lost Planet. His long-form credits include editing episodes of the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023) and the feature Payback (2021). He edited five episodes of the 2026 HBO miniseries DTF St. Louis and also contributed main title design; the series earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
