Picture Palace Pictures develops, produces and represents work that often defies categorization.
Emphasis on auteur-driven material and provocative and challenging projects.
Concentration on creative producing to realize vision
of filmmakers, visual artists and musicians who work in a variety of mediums.

Picture Palace Pictures welcomes collaboration with producers, art institutions, visual artists and musicians from around the world.

Bio
Madeleine Molyneaux is a producer, curator, festival programmer, and artist's representative based in New York and New Orleans.
Through Picture Palace Pictures, she develops and produces films, videos and visual art projects that often defy easy categorization and are often defined as “hybrid” work. She develops primarily for auteurs in the realm of challenging narrative, experimental cinema and essay documentary.

Ms. Molyneaux is currently working with two auteurs: writer/director David Jacobson (CRIMINAL, DAHMER,) serving as creative consultant for the 2006 THINK Film release DOWN IN THE VALLEY (a Sundance Lab 2004 project, the film world premiered in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2005) a contemporary Western set in the San Fernando Valley starring Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse, Rory Culkin and Bruce Dern. With Jacobson, she is in pre-production on A SINGLE SHOT for Hanway Films and in development on CONVICTION, an independent feature set in Angola Prison in Louisiana.

In addition to representing for sales the films of Kevin Jerome Everson, she is currently, as producer, developing several film and art projects with Everson, including RHINO, an experimental bio-pic concerning the 16th century Duke of Florence, Alessandro della Medici and the 20th century television actress Gail Fisher. She is the executive producer of a boxed set of Everson’s films to be released by Video Data Bank worldwide in 2010. She has produced for Everson three feature films, CINNAMON (2006) and THE GOLDEN AGE OF FISH (2008) and most recently, ERIE (2010) as well as several award-winning short works, including Emergency Needs (2008 Whitney Biennial) and produced with the Centre Pompidou a retrospective of the filmmaker’s work to date in May 2009.

In addition to her work with filmmakers and visual artists, Ms. Molyneaux is an independent curator and film festival consultant, scout and programmer and is currently the U.S. programmer for film and new media for the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal (FNC), Montreal’s oldest and most prestigious festival devoted to the discovery and exhibition of daring and innovative cinema. She is a moderator for the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

She is currently the film/video curator at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, producing the series The Art of Southern Film: Established Masters & Emerging Makers, as well as series producer for Celluloid Heroes, a film program of the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation.

As a critic, she writes about cinema and popular culture for publications in the U.S. and Europe. As a freelance consultant on issues of intellectual property and public domain, she has worked on behalf of both broadcast and theatrical distributors, as well as an archival researcher and rights and clearances advisor for independent films and filmmakers. She has seved as radio moderator, producer and host for cultural and music programs in California and Berlin. Her own films, grafted from archival footage and hand-hewn super 8, have been exhibited and broadcast internationally.

Her short films, made exclusively from found footage
and homegrown super 8, have exhibited internationally
in festivals, museums and broadcast venues. "El
Magazo" was featured on the Sundance Channel's Sonic
Cinema (2003) and at the Oberhausen Short Film
Festival/MUVI (2003) as one of the best international
music videos. "Ibid, desmarches Ibid, from a track
premiered at the Dresden Festival for Short
and Animated Film (2003) and exground Film Fest in
Wiesbaden, Germany.