About

Madeleine Mytkowski is a writer & director based in Sydney, Australia.

She graduated from Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television Direction) where she was the recipient of the Lionel Gell Foundation Scholarship and the New Colombo Plan Mobility Scholarship.

Her narrative short film The Water Inside Us All premiered at the Byron Bay International Film Festival 2020 and was nominated for Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year, awarded Best Editing in the National Category at Canberra Short Film Festival 2021 and Best Short Film at Sydney Women's International Film Festival 2022.

Her short documentary Betty and Bushy premiered at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2022, was nominated for Best Documentary at St Kilda Film Festival 2022, was selected to screen in Our Stories at Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival 2022, was nominated for Best Australian Short Documentary at Brisbane International Film Festival 2022, and was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award 2022 for Best Direction in a Documentary Short Subject.

Madeleine recently completed her latest short documentary Salt Dreams, which premiered in Australia at Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2023, screened at Adelaide Film Festival 2023, was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award 2023 for Best Direction in a Documentary Short Subject, was nominated for an Innovation Award at Flickerfest 2024 and screened at Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2024.