Madison Lin is a born and bred Oakland native. Growing up surrounded by the beauty of Lake Merritt (and the apartment building where Stephen Curry lives (not to brag)), Madison loves her city. By age eight, she knew she wanted three things: to live in LA, be a director, and ride a motorcycle. Ten years later, she moved to LA to check items off that list.

 

Since then, Madison has worked on honing her craft to tell stories about the thing she knows best - people trying to bridge the gap between who they are and who they want to be. Her work is characterized by warm imagery, well meaning parents who stumble, and protagonists who are trying to make their younger selves proud. 

 

Madison received her BFA from the University of Southern California's Film and Television Production program. Shortly after graduating, her short RED was a SHIFT Creative Fund Winner,  2023 Screencraft Film Fund Finalist, and a 2023 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. Recently, she had the opportunity to work as a director with the Emmy Award-winning actor Brad Garrett on a pilot called NO SMALL TALK. In 2023, she was selected as a mentee at Netflix and paired with director Michael Francis Williams. Additionally, in 2025 her feature script Jia(家) was a Finalist for the Writer/Director Track for Sundance Collab’s Cultural Impact Residency. She's really proud of everything she’s done so far  and is doing her best to keep working towards the dreams of that eight-year-old girl growing up in Oakland - except the motorcycle thing, she rode one once and it turns out they scare her.