Madeleine GottliebWriter & Director

Latecomers

2022 · SBS Digital Originals seriesSBSDirector, episodes 1, 3–6
A young man in a wheelchair laughs in a dim living room; a young woman in a wheelchair looks on.

Following the lives of two strangers with cerebral palsy who end up in each other's orbit after their carers hook up at a bar, Latecomers is funny, real and raw in its representation of sex and disability.

Watch on SBS On Demand
  • Winner ADG Award, Best Direction in an Online Drama Series Episode, 2023
  • Winner AACTA Award, Best Online Series, 2023
  • Winner SPA SDIN Award, 2023
  • Winner SPA Award, Online Series Production of the Year, 2023
  • Selection Series Mania, 2023
  • Nominated C21 Content London Award, Best Shortform Series, 2023
  • Nominated AACTA Award, Best Online Series, 2024
Directors
Madeleine Gottlieb (Eps 1, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Alistair Baldwin (Ep 2)
Writers
Angus Thompson, Emma Meyers, Nina Oyama
Starring
Hannah Diviney, Angus Thompson, Patrick Jhanur, Miriama Smith
Producers
Liam Heyen
Hannah Ngo
Director of Photography
Grégoire Lière
Production Designer
Aisha Phillips
Costume Designer
Emma Lamp
Editors
Rolando Olalia
Phoenix Chisholm
Original Music
Lance Gurisik
Sound Designer
Abby Sie
Stills photography
Renata Dominik
The two leads talk across a table in a tiled bar.
Photograph: Renata Dominik
Two couples carry each other at the beach at dusk.
Photograph: Renata Dominik
Four characters look up in an adult store.
Photograph: Renata Dominik
A man in a patient hoist, carers looking on.
Photograph: Renata Dominik
The Latecomers poster: four faces pressed close together, laughing, under the words Better Late Than Never.
Poster
Screening roomTrailer · SBS On Demand
Trailer.