Matthew Walker

Biography

Matthew Walker is an Australian director and long time editor with more than 20 years’ experience in documentary storytelling. His debut feature, I’m Wanita, premiered at Hot Docs 2021 and went on to win the Sydney Film Fes:val Award for Best Australian Documentary, the Raindance Award for Best Music Documentary, and the AIDC Award for Best Feature Documentary. He recently directed the YouTube documentary series Cooking for Seamus, a character-driven portrait of a disabled bull with a devoted online following. Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story marks his second music-driven feature documentary.