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Florrie’s Dragons

A beautiful pre-school show about a princess and her pet dragons. Matthew produced this show for The Disney Channel. (52 x 11 min episodes)

Season Five – 26 x 24min (Cookie Jar, Canada) In 2012 Matthew produced the fifth season of this $40 million franchise, working with a team of over 75 spread across three continents. Larry Jacobs directed the series from Canada while Matthew produced from South Africa.

The Hungry Season

Matthew Directed and Produced this animated explainer with Sea Monster and Leonie Joubert for The Open Society of South Africa, The Centre of Criminology and the Embassy of Finland. It deals with three major issues around “Food Security” – Malnutrition, Poverty and Gender. The explainer is available in English, …

Volunteers

Volunteers is an adrenaline packed 13 part 48min documentary series about what drives these men and women to put their lives on the line. Volunteers exposes the viewer to a different side of public service. Focusing on individual character portraits, Volunteers aims to capture the action, emotion, highs and lows …

Impossible is Nothing

SpiritClips.com released Matthew’s short documentary just two weeks before the tragic death of it’s subject, Bret Jackelow. After a previous accident many years before Bret had his hip removed (resulting in one leg being 30cm shorter than the other) and became addicted to painkillers. In an amazing feat of mind …

Brunswick Ninja

We created a series of short animations for The Brunswick Bowling Company USA so customers could select themes when playing. This clip is from the theme: Ninja

Z-News

In 2009 Matthew directed a 1 hour TV pilot using puppets based on South African cartoonist Zapiro’s characters. The pilot was a satire of politics, sport and celebrity in South Africa and was paid for by The South African Broadcasting Corporation. The commissioning editors at the SABC loved the show, …

URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika

This was a groundbreaking 104 episode half hour show in South Africa. Matthew directed and produced the show with a team of 35 animation staff. Nobody in the team had ever created broadcast animation (including Matthew). The result was a cult hit with an epic overarching storyline about a young …

Tasveer

Tasveer is a Bollywood feature film staring Akshay Kumar and Ayesha Takia, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. Matthew line-produced this action thriller in Cape Town with Wendy Knill. Tasveer is the story of a man searching for answers to his father’s death who develops the supernatural talent of being able to enter a …

Misconceptions

Misconceptions is a commercial for South Africa’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Out In Africa, directed by Matthew for The Jupiter Drawing Room.

Clowns

Matthew wrote, directed and produced this short film which was later purchased by Canal+. Clowns won BEST FILM and BEST SCRIPT at the South African Avanti Awards and was nominated for BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR. Clowns also won the SASC VISUAL SPECTRUM TROPHY for director of photography, Mike Downie. …

Mr Bebe

Matthew produced the animation portion of this cult French show for Xilam and Clockwork Zoo

Glitterboys & Ganglands

It’s about stilettos and alter-egos, tucking and tiaras, glitz and ganglands. Matthew produced this feature documentary, directed by his wife Lauren Beukes. The film was nominated fro BEST DOCUMENTARY at The Atlanta Film Festival (2012) and won BEST LBGT FILM at The San Diego Black Film Festival. As 14 contestants …

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