My Films
Welcome to the Puppet Show: A Day at the Circus
2024
Join Clown, Bear and Star, three neurodivergent characters, on their adventure to the circus. There will be big tops, candy floss, and even a musical number, but all is not as it seems in the land of puppets...
Welcome to the Puppet Show: A Day at the Circus was commissioned by Young Film Network South East at Independent Cinema Office, supported by BFI Film Academy with National Lottery funding.
Monsters
2023
Monsters (2023) blends personal essay with unnerving imagery, in the hopes of taking the current narrative surrounding trans and queer people as "monsters", and juxtaposing this with childhood videos, amusement parks, and slugs.
Inspired by the works of Richard Dyer on Queer Theory and vampires such as It's in His Kiss!, Monsters takes these writings around the queer-coding of monsters, alongside the media narrative of trans and queer people, and flips it on its head.
OFFICIALLY SELECTED for ten film festivals, including FilmPride (part of Brighton Pride).
AWARD FINALIST at Lowestoft Film Festival (now Sunrise Film Festival) and San Fransisco Arthouse Festival.
About Maddie
DIRECTOR | EDITOR | WRITER | PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Maddie (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, trans filmmaker and artist born in Eastbourne and based in Brighton.
Maddie's first short film, Monsters, was an experimental documentary exploring the trans experience through current narratives and childhood videos. It was Officially Selected for ten film festivals, and a finalist for awards at Lowestoft Film Festival and San Fransisco Arthouse Short Festival.
Maddie was selected for the first ever Short Cut Film Fund, for their latest short Welcome to the Puppet Show: A Day at the Circus. This fund was offered by Young Film Network South East at Independent Cinema Office, and supported by BFI Film Academy.
They graduated from The University of Southampton with First Class Honours in Film & History, and recently had a film mentorship with Soho House x Creative Mentor Network.
