‘Joyous and life-affirming’: Madeleine Gottlieb on directing ‘Erotic Stories’

When director Madeleine Gottlieb first heard about SBS’s Erotic Stories on the grapevine, she thought the project sounded up her alley.

Produced by Lingo Pictures, the anthology is designed so that the lead characters are each someone who has not typically been written as a sexual lead on Australian screens; be they queer, gender-diverse, living with disability, middle-aged or a person of colour.

Gottlieb thought using sex and eroticism to “shine a light on aspects of the human condition”...