About me
Originally from the UK, Colin is a writer, director, actor, and art department member who currently splits his time between the UK and Canada. He grew up on a London council estate, the son of an East End bookie who liked to mingle with some of the underworld's more colourful characters. He attended college in California where he trained and qualified as a commercial airline pilot. In his youth, he also served in the Special Air Service (SAS) reserve unit of the British Army. He holds British, Canadian, and Irish (EU) passports. Colin has decades of production experience with over 350 hours of produced film and television credits. He has worked Internationally on big-budget studio features and high-end television series in the U.K. Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A. During that time he has been honoured to work with award-winning directors such as Brian De Palma, James Cameron, Frank Oz, John Landis, Sidney J. Furie, and Paul Feig. He is also an accomplished improviser and former member of the award-winning Vancouver Theatresports Improv. League. As an actor, he has performed in television series and feature films as well as a large number of theatre productions. Last year he was a FINALIST in the Final Draft Big Break Competition (a top ten script out of 9,818 submissions!), and was in the TOP 10% of The Academy Nicholl Fellowship, a finalist in the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, a FINALIST in the Stowe Story Labs PAGE Awards Fellowship, an Austin Film Festival second-rounder and had two scripts place highly at the PAGE Awards. He was listed on the Coverfly 2023 List of Lists featuring the best up-and-coming screenwriters and his short film Zarathustra was recently screened to a packed house on the opening night of the 2024 Run N Gun Film Festival. Recently, he won the UK-based Scribe Lounge Elevate Screenwriting Competition, which was held in conjunction with Sid Gentle Films and Tall Story Pictures. He is currently in pre-production for his short film, Never Use Alone, which is currently a second rounder at the Austin Film Festival and is a quarterfinalist for a $50,000 production grant from Stowe Story Labs. Never Use Alone has also secured a $20,000 production grant from Telus Storyhive and an additional $5,000 grant from Creative BC. He is set to direct, and filming is scheduled to begin soon. Link to Colin’s Internet Movie Database profile: imdb.me/ColinMatthews