Biography

Matthew Holmes is an award-winning Australian director, writer and producer. He started his career as a stop-motion animator, sculptor and story-board artist at Adelaide's prestigious animation company Anifex Pty Ltd.

Hisself-funded debut feature 'Twin Rivers' was completed in 2007. 'Bad Boy Bubby' director Rolf De Heer was instrumental in the completion of the film by mentoring Matthew through the final cut, as well as enlisting the help of his own regular collaborators to complete the post-production.

His sophomore feature 'The Legend of Ben Hall' started as a hugely successful crowd-funded short before launching into production as an independently-financed feature, with fellow Australian director Greg Mclean (Wolf Creek) joining as Executive Producer. The film has since garnered multiple international awards and has been released in 22 countries, earning critical praise for its authentic representation of the history.

Matthew's third independent feature film 'The Cost' was released in 2023 to critical and audience acclaim for its unique and powerful exploration of revenge. His fourth feature 'Fear Below' starring UK's Hermione Corfield is now in post-production.

He is now a freelance director and writer residing in Adelaide, South Australia. Matthew has multiple feature screenplays in various stages of development including the WW2 survival drama 'The Guns of Muschu', psychological horror 'BlackJack', the creature-feature 'Territorial', a bold re-imagining of the Greek mythology tale 'Jason and the Argonauts' and a 4-season original drama series titled 'The Bushrangers', which explores every major Australian bushranger from 1856 to 1881.