HOME BEFORE DARK, Maureen Foley’s debut feature film, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best American Independent Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival. It premiered at the International Festival of Women’s Cinema and was acclaimed in Variety as “literate, low-key, and quietly powerful.” It was exhibited theatrically, broadcast widely in the US, and licensed for streaming and exhibition in over forty countries.

AMERICAN WAKE, Maureen’s second feature film, had its world premiere at the Democratic National Convention. It screened at multiple festivals and was selected by WNET/Thirteen, the flagship New York PBS station, as the launch film for Reel 13, the independent film series. Both films were acquired by Netflix.

Maureen wrote and directed FOR THE CURE, the award-winning film exploring the founding and mission of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She recently directed, with James Rutenbeck, the PBS concert film CHILDSPLAY: THE PARTING GLASS.

A graduate of Smith College, she has taught writing and screenwriting at Harvard University, Harvard Business School, and Boston University. 

She was a longtime assistant to William Whitworth and Richard Todd in the editorial department The Atlantic and to the widely beloved Julia Child.