https://www.madeleineolnek.com/home daily 1.0 2021-05-19 https://www.madeleineolnek.com/films daily 0.75 2021-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/c5619c37-cd2f-4dd0-a284-a6253d08a796/maxresdefault-2.jpg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/304672f5-8ae3-4b1f-901d-9172d0d35d2f/Eea51KKXkAEAGk-.jpg Films Photo Credit: Mika Altskan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/15ec9acc-eb12-4b85-a502-4e2daea02efe/MV5BNjNlYTYxODctNzZjMS00NTI1LTliOTQtMTllZmVkNjRlYTYyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTM5NzYzNTU%40._V1_.jpg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/96e50784-035c-4ade-9f38-cad6c506e5f7/wild2.png Films Photo Credit: Niramon Ross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/a29cd377-1241-406f-94b0-59e39c54cbd6/download.jpeg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/a23fe3c0-f443-4aa3-8523-2b4c784dee67/06RDPCODEPEND_SPAN-articleLarge.jpg Films Photo Credit: Nat Bouman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/dd6f5e09-0068-41d2-80f9-81dab1a7d439/Codependent-Lesbian-Space-Alien-Seeks-Same-Still-5-e1415021558587.jpg Films Photo Credit: Federico Cesca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/bbc536ff-5da1-425b-ad70-315d30daf4a4/Codependent-Lesbian-Space-Alien-Seeks-Same-Still-4-e1415021587300.jpg Films Photo Credit: Nat Bouman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/b48c536b-533b-4acb-a4ea-cb460525ecd9/1975118080.jpg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/bb2809b6-8faa-415c-8241-bb6565704861/The-Foxy-Merkins-images-f5db614f-7e57-4f1c-bd6d-ec8052814d4.jpg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/08f36105-e76d-4541-ade2-c1c87db929f9/the-foxy-merkins-sundance-3.jpg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/12c4541e-297a-41d3-84ca-ae29e340b114/the-foxy-merkins.jpeg Films Photo Credit: Anna Stypko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/2fc2861f-a2aa-4aee-9ba8-81fad249f8e9/3118511853_29099c8844_o.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/34b822b9-1958-46cb-afd0-e4587192c22a/Codependent-Lesbian-Space-Alien.jpg Films https://www.madeleineolnek.com/press daily 0.75 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1618014209833-NB93GGGGD5VK42VSXE19/MV5BMTA5MjQ0Mjg1NzReQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDkyODQ5NTcz._V1_.jpg Press - Select Press Wild Nights With Emily - Feature Film With a Rebel Yell, Molly Shannon Claims Collusion - The New York Times How Molly Shannon Brought Emily Dickinson Out of the Closet as a ‘Lesbian Feminist Hero’ - Variety Molly Shannon Talks Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights, Ambition and Becoming a Role Model - Parade ‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Review: Emily Dickinson as Romantic Comedy Heroine - The New York Times ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Understands Queer Desire…one of several movies this year that get intimacy between women right. - Opinion Page; The New York Times The long-buried story of Emily Dickinson’s great love affair — and passionate pursuit of success — is now in theaters. - VOX Move over, Dickinson. The best, funniest, most affecting on-screen Emily Dickinson of 2019 arrived via Wild Nights with Emily - VOX Behind the New, Gloriously Queer Emily Dickinson Movie - Vulture ‘Wild Nights with Emily’ Film Review: Molly Shannon Brilliantly Reimagines Emily Dickinson - The Wrap Review: Wild Nights with Emily Playfully and Necessarily Reimagines Dickinson’s Story - Slant Magazine Indie Focus: Going big with 'Little' - Los Angeles Times Wild Nights with Emily: A funny, sexy look at a great literary injustice - SF Weekly ‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Review: Molly Shannon Is Emily Dickinson in the Best Lesbian Comedy in Years - IndieWire ‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Might Be The Best Lesbian Comedy Ever -Autostraddle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1618014046667-SRP866TJ1VSYEOGH0Q3G/81s3xNUc9fL._RI_.jpg Press - Select Press The Foxy Merkins - Feature Film 10 Great LGBT Films From This Year's Sundance Film Festival - IndieWIRE Sundance Next Weekend Review: The Foxy Merkins “a reminder of how much fun Sundance movies can be”- CraveOnline The Foxy Merkins “This engagingly left-field lesbian comedy is a self-aware low-budget blend of more posturing male hustler films such as Midnight Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, but made with a real sense of warmth and indie humour… a gentle charmer” - Screen Daily On The 6th BAMcinemaFest - ARTFORUM Midnight Cowgirls “odd, poignant, both profane and strangely innocent, and above all, shockingly funny” - The Huffington Post American Gigola: Olnek’s Hilarious Sophomore Film Reinvents the Masculine Realm of Hustler Bonding - IONCINEMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1618013625452-IQAR9WKQGIGYPEG6I7WI/Co-dependant+Lesbians17+%282%29.jpg Press - Select Press Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same - Feature Film SUNDANCE REVIEW: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “A hilarious date movie for couples of all orientations.” - The Hollywood Reporter Lesbian Alien Looks For Love Light Years Away - The New York Times Codependent Lesbian Alien Seeks Same — A Hammer to Nail Review - Filmmaker Magazine Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “Olnek’s sensibility is singular, and the work of the cast — notably the sweetfaced Haas and the hilariously robotic Ziegler — make for a movie that seeks, and earns, affection” - Variety Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “Madeleine Olnek gets laughs and style out of interplanetary love” - Screen Daily Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “Her deadpan style and sympathy with life’s losers and outsiders brings to mind Jim Jarmusch’s landmark indie film ‘Stranger in Paradise.’ ‘Space Aliens’ is not only a worthy successor to that film, but it plants Olnek in the very best tradition of Downtown Manhattan indie filmmaking” - EDGE Media Network The 14 Most Heterophobic Movies of All Time - Autostraddle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1620682330237-I67SQ6OSEZWWLWBX1R0G/sharperimage.jpg Press - What Critics Have Said Countertransference - A Short Film "Unforgettable...a comedic goldmine." Filmmaker Magazine "Madeleine Olnekʼs latest short made me laugh by the fifteen second mark and kept getting funnier from there." - Hammer to Nail. “Twisted laughs” - BlogLive - Sundance Film Festival. "[Countertransference] is a funny, psychologically loaded film that's well crafted and skillfully acted." - The Bottom Line Magazine, Palm Springs, CA "Iʼve yet to see Madeleine Olnekʼs first Sundance kissed short Hold Up, but if itʼs even a shadow of the comedy Countertransference is, then no explanations are necessary as to why Olnek is racking up festival awards and screening selections like theyʼre going out of style." - Short of the Week.com “A really unusual little gem of a film. It was brilliant ...nicely shot and nicely written--very, very nicely written. I thoroughly enjoyed “Countertransference.” - Iris TV review, Wales, UK "The funniest short film made in the year 2008." - Jenni Olson, Planet Out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1622052114112-X0E5MX393SX5Y758JFAL/DB3CE20A-ABD4-47BF-87B6-D3DD0824F218.jpeg Press - Hold Up - A Short Film https://www.madeleineolnek.com/about daily 0.75 2023-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1621452172864-2M6XF07ZH3DHVUMYV7UN/Screenshot+2021-05-19+2.00.36+PM.png ABOUT - Writer/Director/Producer Guggenheim award-winning writer/director/producer Madeleine Olnek has had four films at Sundance: “Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same” “The Foxy Merkins” “Countertransference” and “Hold Up.” She wrote and directed the first-ever on-screen portrayal of a queer Emily Dickinson. “Wild Nights With Emily,” premiered 2018 opening weekend at the Paramount theater at SXSW, was acquired by Hulu & Universal Pictures, and was picked by Rotten Tomatoes as one of the top ten "Best Comedies of 2019." She served as the sole juror for the NEXT Section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. 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Extended Bio For her film “Countertransference,” she was awarded best female short film director at Sundance, by LA’s “Women In Film” organization. Her films have screened in festivals around the world, including: The Moscow International Film Festival, MoMA, The Viennale, The Festival Do Rio, Lincoln Center, Rooftop Films & BAMCinemaFEST. She did graduate work supported by fellowships, studying playwriting with Paula Vogel at Brown University, and filmmaking with Eric Mendelsohn at Columbia University’s MFA film program, where she was awarded the prestigious William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship & the Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director. Her work has been supported by The Cinereach Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council of The Arts, and the Giard Foundation; she has been commissioned by The Atlantic Theater, The Public Theater & The Actors Theater of Louisville. She has twice been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. She has worked in a longtime dramaturgical collaboration with Yale Professor Deb Margolin. Madeleine was originally a playwright who belonged to the Emerging Playwrights Lab at New York’s Public Theater; she wrote and directed over 24 of her original plays in downtown New York City venues. During the New York City lockdown, she performed a series of stand-up comedy shows on zoom with comedienne Jackie Monahan entitled “In Conclusion,” to facilitate pandemic PPE donations to NYC hospitals. She is a co-author of “The Practical Handbook for The Actor” (Vintage/Random House/foreword by David Mamet), a widely-used acting text which is required reading at many universities. As an undergrad at NYU, Madeleine directed classmate Molly Shannon in a comedy show where Shannon created the prototype for her famous SNL Catholic schoolgirl character. https://www.madeleineolnek.com/education daily 0.75 2022-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6070e5b6402e1253d77624b7/1661891120445-OWNN6Z0H810R9F8FVS94/unsplash-image-jrRe6er0pY0.jpg