Biography
Matthew Holmes is a multi award-winning Australian director, writer and producer who started his career in 1995 a stop-motion animator, sculptor and story-board artist working on hundreds of TVCs and award-winning short films at Adelaide's prestigious animation company Anifex Pty Ltd. His self-financed feature debut 'Twin Rivers' was completed in 2007, finding a home on Foxtel. His sophomore feature 'The Legend of Ben Hall' was release in 2016, which started as a hugely successful crowd-funded short before launching into production as a feature, with fellow Australian director Greg Mclean (Wolf Creek, Jungle) joining as Executive Producer. The film has since garnered multiple international awards and has been released in 22 countries, earning critical & audience praise for his engaging characters and highly authentic recreation of the history. Matthew's third independent feature film 'The Cost' was completed in late-2022. He is now a freelance director residing in Melbourne, Victoria. Matthew has multiple features in various stages of development including the crime thriller 'Impasse', a contemplative drama 'The Vault', a mystery thriller 'Mortality', a 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 series titled 'The Bushrangers'.
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Primarily credited in directing across their wider career, per TMDB.
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Far End of the Sea since AFINDirector52m2026 Washed ashore on a small island in the Pacific, shipwrecked Scottish sailor, Hamish MacKay, is quickly taken captive by local islander Adiben. On route back to Adiben’s village where an ill fate certainly awaits him, Hamish must figure out a way to escape his captor.
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Fear Below since AFINDirector · Writer1h 25m2025 A rag-tag team of divers attempting to salvage a sunken car from a river are thwarted by a highly aggressive bull shark.
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The Cost Director · Writer1h 48m2023 Intent on dispensing their own brutal form of justice, two ordinary men abduct a felon who committed a horrific crime many years before.
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The Legend of Ben Hall Director · Writer2h 19m2016 Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.
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The Artifice Writer2014 A man who is recently single finds himself in a terrifying encounter with a child who is not what he appears to be.
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Twin Rivers Director · Writer · Thomas Norton1h 46m2007 Set in 1939 Australia, two brothers embark on a 500 mile journey on foot across New South Wales following a dream. A chance encounter with a fellow traveler changes the course of their journey and ultimately, the course of their lives.
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Ballad of a Sundowner Director On the rural back roads of South Australia in 1934, a traumatised World War One veteran living as a swagman gradually becomes a desperate and dangerous fugitive known as 'The Sundowner'.
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