BAFTA winning director Morgan Matthews has been making acclaimed documentary films for over ten years, establishing a distinctive style. His earlier work includes feature length documentaries for the BBC such as Care House, filmed in a care home in York, and Taxidermy: Stuff the World, about the world taxidermy championship, which was nominated for BAFTA, RTS and Grierson awards.
He also made Beautiful Young Minds about the international Mathematical Olympiad, which was nominated for a BAFTA, RTS, Prix Europa and Grierson award for best single documentary. His two part series for Channel 4, My Crazy Parents was nominated for an RTS award for best documentary series.
After founding Minnow Films in 2006, Morgan’s first film was the Grierson Award nominated Battleship Antarctica following a Greenpeace expedition to confront the Japanese whaling fleet. He then went on to direct The Fallen a single three-hour film for BBC2, remembering every British serviceman and woman who had died whist serving in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Fallen was named best single documentary of 2008 at the RTS Awards and won two BAFTAs, including Best Factual Director. Since then, Morgan's work at Minnow includes the BAFTA nominated Scenes from a Teenage Killing, which chronicled every teenager to have died a result of violence in 2009.
Most recently, Morgan has completed When Harry Left Hogwarts, a uniquely intimate portrait of the filming of the final two parts of the ‘Harry Potter’ series.
As well as continuing to executive produce Minnow’s output, Morgan is currently working on two projects; Britain in a Day, the follow up to Kevin McDonald’s groundbreaking Life in a Day, and Of Monsters and Men, a new feature length single commissioned by BBC Storyville. |
