Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich is a filmmaker and artist who makes films concerned with the inner worlds of black women. Her work has been screened all over the world including at the 2023 Berlinale, the 2022 La Biennale di Venezia, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of Art. She was named on Filmmaker Magazine's 2020 "25 New Faces of Independent Cinema List" and is the recipient of a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in Film, a 2022 Creative Capitol Award, a 2019 Rema Hort Mann Award, and a 2014 Princess Grace Award in film. Her first feature The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire premiered at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam and is selected for the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2024 New York Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center.