Anne Madden

Born in Nuremberg, Germany, to Vietnamese-American parents, Madden was

raised alternately in Northern Europe and the US. With the absence of television

while abroad, she watched LAUREL AND HARDY and ABBOT AND COSTELLO movies

with the family Super 8 projector. Madden started making her own Super 8 film

shorts while still a teenager and continued to do so while attending Sarah

Lawrence College. After working in Story Research and Development for Turner

Pictures and the A&E Biography series, Madden attended the American Film

Institute’’s Directing Program, making three short videos before writing and

directing her Master's thesis film FIRST DAUGHTER, which gamered the Martin Ritt

Foundation Award for Best Screenplay. She is currently developing an IMAX

documentary with FIRST DAUGHTER cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos as well as

writing her first feature.