Maddi Barber earned a degree in audiovisual communication from the University of the Basque Country, and a master in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester, and in art direction from the Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 2015 she collaborated on Zinergentziak #15, in which she directed the collective feature Distantziak, followed by Diary of Dreams (2017) and Yours Truly (2018) in co-direction with Christopher Murray and Charlotte Hoskins,
