Madeleine Hunt

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of Black women. Rooted in archival and field research, Hunt-Ehrlich’s practice uses abstraction as a mode of resistance in depicting subjects deprived of self-autonomy under the exploitative gaze of the colonial camera.

Hunt-Ehrlich's work has screened all over the world, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and in film festivals such as the New Orleans Film Festival, Doclisboa, and BlackStar Film Festival. She has been featured in Essence magazine, Studio Museum’s Studio magazine, ARC Magazine, BOMBLOG, Guernica, and Small Axe, among others. She was named as one of Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film 2020” and is the recipient of a San Francisco International Film Festival 2020 Rainin Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2019 Emerging Artist grant, a 2019 UNDO Fellowship and grant, a 2015 TFI/ESPN Future Filmmaker Award, and a 2014 Princess Grace Award. Her work has been recognized by the Time Inc. Black Girl Magic Emerging Director's series and the National Magazine Awards, and she has received grants from the National Black Programming Consortium and Glassbreaker Films. Hunt Ehrlich has a degree in film and photography from Hampshire College and an MFA in film and media arts from Temple University. She is currently an assistant professor in film and television production at Queens College, City University of New York.

Education

• Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Temple University (2012 — 2015)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Hampshire College (2007 — 2009)

Companies

• Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies Queens College (2018)
• Associate Producer, PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs PBS NewsHour (2017)
• Producer, Shooter, Editor Freelance Video Production (2015)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Villanova University (2016 — 2017)
• Adjunct Professor Temple University (2015 — 2016)
• Director at "Black Girl Magic" series Essence Magazine (2015 — 2016)
• Adjunct Professor Elon University (2015 — 2015)
• Transcriber CBS Corporation (2014 — 2015)
• Features and Original Programming Intern, CBS Sports Network CBS Corporation (2014 — 2014)