Runner-turned-filmmaker Romey puts focus on Mount Marathon

It’s not that Max Romey is an accidental filmmaker. He’s been a movie buff for as long as he can remember, and as a kid he thought maybe someday he’d be an actor.

For awhile his talents as a runner put his focus elsewhere. As a senior at Service High, Romey won the 3,200 meters and 1,600 meters at the 2012 state track championships, won the boys race at the 2011 Cook Inlet Conference cross country championships and finished second in that year’s state cross country championships.