SNARE
Genre: Dramedy
Format: Feature Film
Writers: Madeleine Gottileb + James Fraser
Director: Madeleine Gottlieb
Status: Script
A father and his punk-rock son struggle to reconcile each other’s needs and ambitions as parental roles are reversed and expectations inverted. A feature-length adaptation of the SXSW competition screening short film.
SNARE
Genre: Dramedy
Format: Feature Film
Writers: Madeleine Gottileb + James Fraser
Director: Madeleine Gottlieb
Status: Script
A father and his punk-rock son struggle to reconcile each other’s needs and ambitions as parental roles are reversed and expectations inverted. A feature-length adaptation of the SXSW competition screening short film.
Madeleine Gottlieb is an award-winning Australian director, producer and screenwriter whose work has screened at SXSW, TIFF, Tribeca, Palm Springs, SeriesMania, MIFF and Sydney Film Festival.
A recipient of the 2023 ADG Award and 2024 AACTA Award for Best Online Series, Madeleine has built a reputation for elevated, character-driven storytelling across premium television and film.
She most recently set up, directed and executive produced all six episodes of Treasure & Dirt, a neo-noir mystery series for Easy Tiger, the ABC and BBC. Prior to that, she set up The Twelve: Cape Rock Killer for Warner Bros, Easy Tiger and Foxtel - starring Sam Neill - and directed six of its eight episodes. The series received five AACTA Award nominations including Best Drama Series and Best Direction, for which Madeleine was personally nominated.
She also set up Erotic Stories, an anthology series of contemporary tales about lust, desire and longing for Lingo Pictures and SBS, which premiered at SXSW Sydney and received five 2024 AACTA Award nominations including Best Drama Series. Her SBS Digital Originals series Latecomers - about two strangers with cerebral palsy determined to explore their relationship with sex and each other - premiered on International Day of People With Disabilities 2022, screened in competition at SeriesMania in Lille, and went on to win both the ADG and AACTA awards.
In film, Madeleine's short Snare world premiered in competition at SXSW before screening at Tribeca, Palm Springs, Seattle, Sydney and Melbourne, and was acquired by Mailchimp to launch their boutique streaming platform Mailchimp Presents. Her follow-up You and Me, Before and After, starring Yael Stone and Emily Barclay, premiered at MIFF and TIFF and was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Short Film and an ADG Award for Best Direction.
Madeleine is a genre-agnostic storyteller with a particular love of mystery, thriller and elevated genre work. She is drawn to stories about family and the intersections of Jewish culture, feminism, queerness and contemporary masculinity, and is passionate about the representation of diverse experiences onscreen. She is currently co-writing a romantic comedy feature for Brouhaha Entertainment and has a wide development slate spanning television and film.
I wish to acknowledge the custodians of this land on which I live and work, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and their Elders past and present.