BAFTA winning director Morgan Matthews has been making documentary films for over ten years, establishing a distinctive style.

He spent 5 years working at Century Films where his critically acclaimed films included Care House (2003), Rude Girls (2004) and Quitters (2005).

His two part series My Crazy Parents (2004) was nominated for an RTS award, and the feature length Taxidermy: Stuff the World (2006) was nominated for both the BAFTA and RTS awards for best single documentary as well as the Grierson award for most entertaining documentary.

In 2005 Morgan joined Blast! Films where he directed four films for BBC2; Blue Suede Jew, Hair Wars, Million Dollar Pigeon (2007) and the feature length Beautiful Young Minds, which was nominated for a Bafta, RTS, Prix Europa and Grierson award. It was after leaving Blast! that Morgan set up Minnow Films.

At Minnow, Morgan’s first film was a one-hour documentary for Channel 4, the Grierson Award nominated Battleship Antarctica about a Greenpeace expedition to confront the Japanese whaling fleet. He then directed The Fallen, a three-hour film for BBC2, remembering every British serviceman and woman who has died whilst serving in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was named the best documentary of 2008 at the RTS Awards and won two BAFTA’s including Best Factual Director.

After completing The Fallen: Legacy of Iraq, and The Trouble With Girls, he is currently directing Seventeen, a film about violent teenage deaths in the UK.