Matthew Christian Metcalfe is a New Zealand film producer and screenwriter known for his biographical and documentary films.
31 Facts About Matthew Metcalfe
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Matthew Metcalfe has produced comedies and drama films, as well as being involved in several television series.
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In December 2024, Metcalfe was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the film industry.
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Matthew Metcalfe produced several short films, before producting feature films and television series.
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Matthew Metcalfe's family moved to Papua New Guinea to then Canberra, Australia, when Metcalfe was a child.
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Matthew Metcalfe did military service in Australia and New Zealand.
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Matthew Metcalfe completed a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at Auckland University, and later the University of Oxford, England, where he received an Advanced Diploma in English History.
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Matthew Metcalfe was interested in film during his student days.
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Matthew Metcalfe worked as a music video producer in the early 2000s, with Shihad, Hayley Westenra and Che Fu.
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Matthew Metcalfe was involved with the script writer, Jesse Warn who was promised to getting 9 Across on-screen.
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Matthew Metcalfe then went on to produce music videos for Shihad and Hayley Westenra.
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Matthew Metcalfe teamed up again with film writer Jesse Warn to work on more projects.
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Matthew Metcalfe teamed up with Warn again to produce the 2003 film Nemesis Game.
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Matthew Metcalfe then went to focus on a more personal documentary about his own father, Frank, in Vietnam - My Father's War which was released in 2006.
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Around this time Matthew Metcalfe started to direct documentaries including the 2007 documentary, Soldiers of Fortune.
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Matthew Metcalfe was involved in the development of the 2008 feature-length documentary, Relocated Mountains which follows a Kurdish refugee's trip from New Zealand back to Iraq.
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For both of these films, Matthew Metcalfe spent time in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Matthew Metcalfe has noted that during the filming, him and the film crew were being secretly filmed by a kidnap squad.
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In 2007, a film that Matthew Metcalfe produced, The Ferryman was released.
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Matthew Metcalfe went on to produce a further four features with Toa Fraser, including, Giselle, The Dead Lands and the films, 6 Days and The Free Man.
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Matthew Metcalfe produced the romantic comedy, Love Birds that was released in 2011.
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Matthew Metcalfe portrayed the English mountaineer and author Wilfrid Noyce in the film.
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Matthew Metcalfe then worked with New Zealand producer Fraser Brown to work on more documentaries such as, McLaren, Born Racer - The Scott Dixon Story and Wayne.
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In 2021, Matthew Metcalfe produced Mothers of the Revolution which follows the story of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protests.
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In 2022 Matthew Metcalfe was one of the producers for the biographical film about the life of Dame Whina Cooper, Whina.
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Matthew Metcalfe served as one of the producers for the horror mystery film The Tank, which was released late April 2023.
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Matthew Metcalfe was a co-writer, with director Lucy Lawless, for the film, as well as a producer.
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Matthew Metcalfe is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Geographical Society.
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In 2002, Matthew Metcalfe won a Tui Award for best music video.
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In 2013, Matthew Metcalfe was awarded Independent Producer of the Year at the SPADA Screen Industry Awards.
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Also in 2013, Matthew Metcalfe was included in the nomination for Beyond the Edge for Best Documentary at the 2013 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards.