About Contact
About
Madeleine directed the Emmy and Peabody-award winning, globally trending Netflix special, Nanette, has worked across stage, screen, moving image and VR as a director, writer and producer, and - between the ages of 20-24 - hosted and directed award-winning documentaries, including the ABC Maddie Parry series, which out-rated the competition in its prime-time slot.
Madeleine has a skill for balancing heavy themes with insight and humour and explores ways to engage audiences in dialogue with a work. She has developed for Matchbox Pictures, Guesswork Television and Made Up Stories and worked with visual artists and comedians.
In 2025 Madeleine was mentored by Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) on her short film Carla. Her first scripted feature, Eleftheria, is currently financing with Madman Entertainment on board.
Media
- WIFT Announces Writers Selected for Annual Writing Retreat - FilmInk (2025)
- Adelaide Film Festival to bring five films to Cannes - IF Mag (2025)
- Screen Australia Announces over $4.6 million in Enterprise funding - Screen Australia (2023)
- Screen Australia Announces $900,000 in development funding for 31 projects - IF Mag (2023)
- Director Madeleine Parry on Adelaide as a Story-Making City - CityMag (2022)
- Madeleine Parry on truth, filmmaking and Hannah Gadsby's new Netflix special - Adelaide Review (2021)
- SAFC announces teams for inaugural Film Lab: New Voices - Inside Film (2021)
- Fiona Percival, Allison Chhorn, Madeleine Parry share Lottie Lyell Award funding - Inside Film (2020)
- How Nanette Made it to Netflix - Mashable (2018)
- Murder Mouth review and interview - Beat Magazine (2011)
Television
(Netflix, 2020)
(Netflix, 2018)
(ABC, 15 X 10 minute documentary comedy series, for broadcast 2018)
(ABC, 3 X half-hour documentaries, broadcast Dec 2015)
(ABC, 1 x half-hour documentary, broadcast Nov 2012)
Film
(Short drama comedy, 2025, in post-production)
(Short drama dark comedy, 2024, In Competition - Adelaide Film Festival 2024)
(Feature Documentary, Universal Pictures, 2022)
(Short documentary, 2018)
(Award-winning short documentary film, 2012)
Moving Image
(2025, interactive installation, in development)
(2019, video art, by Madison Bycroft, CAC Bretigny, Paris and Roodkaptje, Rotterdam)
Stage
(2025, stand up, Edinburgh Fringe ‘24, ‘25, Adelaide Fringe ‘24)
Awards Nominations
Best Documentary (AIDC Award) South Australian Screen Awards (SASA) - Meatwork, 2013
Best Film, CineGlobe International Film Festival - Murder Mouth, 2011
Best Film, Bondi Short Film Festival - Murder Mouth, 2011
Second Prize, Shorts Film Festival - Murder Mouth, 2012
People’s Choice Award, South Australian Screen Awards - Murder Mouth, 2011
The (ish) Edinburgh Comedy Awards, James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex To My Mum), 2025
Best Direction in a Documentary Series, Australian Director’s Guild (ADG) for Maddie Parry: Tough Jobs, 2016
Best Short Documentary, IF Awards, Murder Mouth, 2011
Scholarships, Delegations, Labs, Attachments
IFA Masterclass with Asghar Farhadi, 2025AFF Goes to Cannes delegation, Adelaide Film Festival, 2025
Enterprise People placement, Screen Australia, 2023
ADG Director’s Attachment to Daniel Nettheim on The Tourist (HBO, BBC, STAN, ZDF), 2021
Film Lab: New Voices, South Australian Film Corporation, Adelaide Film Festival, Screen Australia 2021
Lottie Lyell Award, South Australian Film Corporation, 2020
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grantee, 2020
Talent LA, Screen Australia, 2019
Film and New Media Scholarship, Carclew, 2014