Talent Guide

Maddy Askwith

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2020

Bio

Madeleine Askwith is a creative Producer from Aotearoa New Zealand who has shot all over the world and is currently based in New York. Maddy produced Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream That Call To Me (Sundance 2020) and Tim Sutton’s Funny Face 27 (Berlinale 2020). She co-produced Matthew Porterfield’s Sollers Point (San Sebastian 2017) and Production Managed Tim Sutton’s Dark Night (Sundance 2016). Maddy has also produced award winning documentaries such as Earth Works (Viceland 2017) and Running In North Korea (The Olympic Channel 2019).She is a 2020 IFP-Cannes Producers Network Fellow.

Current Project

Palm Trees and Power Lines

Logline

During summer break, a disconnected teenage girl falls into a relationship with a man more than twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all of her problems, but his motives are not what they seemed.