A Madden

Editor, Director, Facilitator

A Madden is a filmmaker, educator, and facilitator and has worked as an editor and director of documentary, narrative, and commercial projects for 15 years. Their work has been exhibited internationally and won multiple awards and nominations including screenings at SXSW, DOCNYC, and NewFilmmakers Los Angeles. Projects include directing the short documentaries, A Spell For Queer Home and Dear Elsa: 10 Letters + 10 Experiments, the TV pilot, Mercy Mistress, the short narrative films, Separation Celebration and Names of Women, being a primary editor on the feature hybrid documentary, Roleplay, and editing for clients including Sundance, MTV, BET, Pride Media, Refinery 29, Condé Nast, and NBC Universal. As an educator and facilitator, they have taught filmmaking at Utah Valley University, Reel Works, Hunter College, and Spy Hop Productions, managed the artist support program, Artist Foundry at the Utah Film Center, and created Reflection Collective, an independent educational and coaching project that focuses on creative practice as an opportunity for exploration, introspection, and connection. They hold a BA in Film from Montana State University and an MFA in Documentary Filmmaking from Hunter College. As an editor, they are highly organized, technically skilled, boldly creative, and ethically dedicated. As a director, they are a rigorous steward of vision, an attentive and compassionate leader, and a facilitator of emergent processes for storytelling and collaboration. As an educator and facilitator, their vision is to create space and impetus for other artists to engage in thoughtful, intentional, and creative risk-taking and reflection with a lens toward challenging the ways oppressive systems manifest and collectively using art to imagine and catalyze new futures. Everything they create seeks to queer both the process and the content. They are rooted in their belief that film is a portal for breaking binaries, creating embodied experience, and a way to see and be seen. Their films, projects, workshops, offerings, and spaces are reflections, openings, and spells, ways to see ourselves, question, and imagine, to hold nuance, complexity, and fluidity, to be in community.