Madeleine Hetherton-Miau is an Australian documentary director and producer. Her work has taken her from diamond diving in Africa to wildlife trafficking in Burma and through the remote Australian outback, and has screened on National Geographic, Netflix, ABC, BBC, Discovery, Hulu and Al Jazeera. In 2012 she co-founded the independent production company Media Stockade with Rebecca Barry. Her credits include the eight-part series The Surgery Ship for National Geographic Channel, the true crime series Debi Marshall Investigates: The Family Court Murders for ABC, Back to Nature, and Mozart's Sister for PBS and Sky Arts UK.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Producer and director, also writer
- 7 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
What are Madeleine Hetherton-Miau's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous4
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Madeleine Hetherton-Miau's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Madeleine Hetherton-Miau's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
15 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
The Day We Saved the Zoo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Mozart's Sister(2024)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Family Court Murders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Back to Nature(2021)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Power Meri (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
China Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Disaster Capitalism(2018)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Surgery Ship Series(2017)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Call Me Dad (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Surgery Ship(2015)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Love in Our Own Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
The Island (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Occasional Coarse Language (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Career shape
A full career of 13 titles from 1998 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Madeleine Hetherton-Miau's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 87th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 93rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 7 titles are Loved with Detractors.
- Loved with Detractors2
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed2
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Madeleine Hetherton-Miau work with?
People who share at least 2 of Madeleine Hetherton-Miau's MovieCove titles; Rebecca Barry shares the most, 7.
- Bernadette MurrayShared titles: Back to Nature (2021), The Surgery Ship Series (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Bernadette Murray
- Rebecca BarryShared titles: Mozart's Sister (2024), The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (2022), Back to Nature (2021), Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies (2019), Disaster Capitalism (2018), The Surgery Ship Series (2017), The Surgery Ship (2015)See all 7 shared titles with Rebecca Barry
