Madeleine Farley is an award-winning British filmmaker, photographer and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores outsiders, unlikely heroes and the natural world with humanity, humour and a fascination for unconventional lives.
Her latest short documentary, No Bats – The Power of Us Is Us, explores brotherhood, charity and legacy at the iconic Field of Dreams and won Best Short at the 2026 Golden Isles Film Festival. Her feature documentary Fist Bump premiered at Slamdance in 2025 and received the NYWIFT Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant Award, the Harlem International Film Festival Impact Award and multiple international Best Documentary honours.
Her debut feature, Trollywood, was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary and won Best Documentary at Cinemania and Oslo. Her film Stooge, following an Iggy Pop fan’s extraordinary devotion to his hero, premiered at Raindance, where it was nominated for Best UK Feature.
For over twenty years working with The Aspinall Foundation, Madeleine documented endangered wildlife and conservation projects worldwide. She directed Discovery Channel’s 13-part series Gorilla School in Gabon, and her short film of Damian Aspinall’s reunion with Kwibi has attracted over 45 million views.
Madeleine began her photographic career contributing to Flaunt magazine and has exhibited in London, New York and Los Angeles. Her Movie Tips series, recreating iconic film scenes with cotton buds, was published as a book by Rankin.
She is currently developing documentary and narrative features, including The Rise & Fall of Piggy Church, a darkly comic American crime fable.