Madeleine Gottlieb is an award-winning director, producer + screenwriter from Sydney, Australia. Her work has screened as prestige festivals worldwide including SXSW, TIFF, Tribeca, Palm Springs, MIFF and SFF. 

 

Most recently, Madeleine set up an entirely new series of critically acclaimed anthology drama The Twelve for Warner Brothers Entertainment and Easy Tiger. The Twelve: Cape Rock  stars Sam Neill and was filmed in Western Australia for Foxtel, with Madeleine directing 6 of its 8 x 1 hour  episodes (1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8). 

 

Prior, Madeleine set up Erotic Stories, an 8 x 30 minute anthology series of contemporary tales about lust, desire and longing for Lingo Pictures and SBS. Erotic Stories premiered at SXSW Sydney and was nominated for five 2024 AACTA Awards including Best Drama Series. Madeleine also set-up directed Latecomers - an SBS Digital Originals series about two strangers with cerebral palsy who are determined to explore their relationships with sex and each other after watching their carers hook up at a bar. Latecomers premiered on SBS Viceland, SBS On Demand and CBC Gem in Canada on International Day of People With Disabilities 2022 and screened in competition at SeriesMania 2023 in Lille, France. Madeleine's work on the show earned her a 2023 Australian Director's Guild Award and a 2024 AACTA Award for best Online Series.

 

In 2021, Madeleine’s fourth short film You and Me, Before and After (starring Yael Stone and Emily Barclay) premiered domestically at MIFF, internationally at TIFF and screened at festivals worldwide including Aspen, Flickerfest, St Kilda and Palm Springs. You and Me, Before and After was nominated for a 2021 AACTA Award for Best Short Film and 2022 Australian Director's Guild Award for Best Direction in a Short Film. The year before that, Madeleine’s third short film Laura premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival, and in 2019, Madeleine's second short film Snare was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Short Film. Snare world premiered in competition at SXSW, going on to screen in competition at Tribeca, Seattle International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. 

 

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 boutique streaming platform.

  

Madeleine is passionate about the representation of diverse experiences onscreen and has a particular interest in stories about family and the intersections of Judaism, feminism, queerness and contemporary masculinities. She is currently co-writing a romantic comedy feature film for Brouhaha Entertainment and has an exciting development slate, including three television series and three features.