Madeline Gunderson is a video journalist born and raised in a log cabin in the Pacific Northwest, now based in Brooklyn. She is currently directing a documentary film in Mexico State.
Madeline has worked at USA Today, NBC News, Little Monster Films and Adonde Media. She directed the short documentaries A Valley Divided, which premiered at DOCNYC, and La Vida de un Latero, a “Best of the Fest '' selection at the Northwest Film Forum. She graduated from New York University’s News and Documentary masters program and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, where she studied in Spain and Argentina.
Honors and Awards
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant 2025–2026
New York Foundation for the Arts
Fulbright Scholarship, Arts 2024–2025
Fulbright-García Robles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
NYU Production Lab Fellowship 2020–2021
New York University
Preserving Democracy & Voting Rights Fellow 2020
The Groundtruth Project
Freelance Journalist Grant 2020
Overseas Press Club
Global Beat International Field Reporting Cohort 2019–2020
New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
Chester Fritz Scholar 2015
University of Washington