Madeleine Gottlieb

Writer | Director

Madeleine Gottlieb is an acclaimed director, producer and screenwriter based in Sydney.

Most recently, Madeleine directed the ground-breaking digital series, Latecomers, for SBS and Mad Ones Films. She directed five of the six episodes, which follow two strangers with cerebral palsy, Frank and Sarah. After witnessing their carers hook up at a bar, Frank and Sarah decide to explore their own relationships with sex and each other. This series earned Madeleine a nomination for Best Direction in an Online Comedy Series at the 2023 ADG Awards.

Beginning her career as a Production & Development Executive at Goalpost Pictures, Madeleine worked on high-profile productions including Matthew Saville’s Felony (2014), Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man (2015) as well as a slew of projects in development. She was Script Coordinator and Assistant to director Wayne Blair on Cleverman Season 1 (ABC, 2016) and Associate Producer on Cleverman Season 2 (ABC, 2017), where she wrote additional story material and was involved from development through production, post-production and delivery, variously working alongside the writers, producers and directors. Cleverman premiered at the 2016 Berlinale.

Madeleine’s first short film as a director, the AWGIE-winning I F***ed a Mermaid and No One Believes Me (prod. Liam Heyen, Cyna Strachan), had its international premiere at Interfilm Berlin / KUKI Berlin in November 2018 and premiered domestically at Flickerfest 2019 before screening at festivals worldwide. In 2018 she directed, wrote and produced her second short film Snare, which was nominated for a 2019 AACTA Award for Best Short Film and world premiered in competition at SXSW 2019, going on to screen in competition at Tribeca 2019, Seattle International Film Festival 2019, Sydney Film Festival 2019, Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019 and Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 to date.

In late 2019 Snare was bought by global online marketing platform Mailchimp and released online to mark the launch of Mailchimp Presents, the company’s new boutique streaming platform. 2019 also saw Madeleine complete a Screen Australia Director's Attachment on Leah Purcell’s revisionist western feature film The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (Bunya Productions, 2020), as well as write feature film Panyee (dir. Matt Devine) for producers Martha Coleman and Lauren Edwards of Revlover Films. She also wrote, directed and produced her third short film Laura which recently completed post-production.

In 2020 Madeleine wrote and directed her fourth short film,  You and Me, Before and After, which stars Yael Stone, Emily Barclay and Tracy Mann. The film had its World Premiere at 2021 Melbourne International Film Festival, which was followed by an International Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2021 AACTA Awards and earned Madeleine a nomination for Best Direction in a Short Film at the 2022 ADG Awards.

Most recently, Madeleine served as the set-up director on the anthology series, Erotic Stories, a series of contemporary tales about lust, desire, and longing for Lingo Pictures and SBS.

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