Biography

Madison Gwinn is a Film Production major with a dual Directing & Editing emphasis and in the University Honors Program at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. Born in Washington DC, she spent the latter half of her childhood growing up in the Pacific Northwest outside of Seattle. Having a deep love for nature and the arts, she was hesitant yet immensely curious to move to the Los Angeles area. She has since spent six months living and studying abroad in Prague, Czech Republic, where her passion for film history in Central Europe blossomed. Madison spends her time either in solitude or fully engaged with others, enjoying backpacking, studying film literature, making films with her peers, jumping on random road trips and flights to unexplored places, and pursuing conversation with strangers. She is exuberant to learn from every moment life has to offer and hopes to absorb the world's stories and infuse them into her art, as if to hand back the world a reflection of itself through her soul.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elizabeth Gwinn

Maddie Gwinn is a first-time filmmaker from Seattle, USA. After graduating from Chapman University and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, her award-winning thesis about cultural movements under ex-communist societies with the Czech National Film Archive led her to the Balkans. Maddie is passionate about observing youth culture through a geopolitical lens and strives to be a bridge between American and European film industries.
- IMDb mini biography by: Maddie Gwinn