Matthew Wortman is a renowned and award-winning director and producer with a career spanning 18 years in the television industry. He has worked with numerous international broadcasters and channels, establishing a reputation for creating visually compelling and award-winning drama.
Currently, Matthew is preparing to direct his first independently financed feature film, FRONTIER: The Fight for the Amazon. This epic western cowboy movie tells the story of the battle for Brazil's interior, a modern-day environmental drama that explores the clash between those fighting to save the Amazon and those fighting to exploit it.
Matthew's impressive body of work includes directing factual-based dramas for the BBC, such as THE BUSBY BABES, a powerful drama about the 1958 Munich Air crash that killed eight members of the Manchester United football team. He also directed THE SPY FROM MOSCOW, an espionage thriller set against the backdrop of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Matthew's documentary credits include NEFERTITI RESURRECTED, a highly popular and controversial film that won an Emmy for Discovery Channel. The film explored the quest for the lost mummy of Egypt's most mysterious queen, Nefertiti.
In addition to his documentary work, Matthew has directed action-adventure docudramas for Animal Planet's NATURE'S MOST WANTED and FATAL ATTRACTIONS, a series that delved into the dark world of people's obsession with exotic and dangerous animals. He also directed the award-winning SITUATION CRITICAL for National Geographic, a hard-cutting and eye-witness docudrama series that explored some of the most gripping stories of the day.
Matthew's other notable credits include directing the TV movie WHAT THE DAMBUSTERS DID NEXT for Channel Five and National Geographic, which reconstructed the secret missions of the last remaining Dambuster veterans. He also directed STORM CITY, a flagship series for SKY's 3D channel.
