Matthew Leutwyler
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
After studying film at The San Francisco Art Institute, Matthew Leutwyler wrote and directed the cult-comedy/horror/musical Dead & Breakfast The film went on to win over a dozen audience and best feature film awards around the world and was nominated for a Saturn Award. Since then he has produced or exec produced the films The Oh In Ohio, Against The Current, Wonderful World, Every Day, Super, The Girl Most Likely and the food doc Spinning Plates He has also directed the films The River Why and Uncanny. He spent the final five months of 2019 directing and co-show-running the 8 episode action-drama series Stat Of Siege: 26/11 based on the true life events surrounding the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
In 2020 Matthew and producing partner Anton Laines formed KG28Media in Rwanda and began following the real life stories of an all female boxing team in DR Congo for an upcoming docu-series. Matthew wrote a dramatized version of their story and in August 2022 directed the feature film Fight Like A Girl, based on the true story of a young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mine who escapes her captors and finds a new life as a professional boxer. The film has been nominated for 8 Africa Movie Academy Awards (2023) including Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Cinematography. The film will premiere on the U.S. film festival circuit in 2024.
Matthew and Anton are developing several TV series and films in East Africa and India through their new production company, including Mattuta Rua (Dead Waters), a thriller set against the world of oil piracy in the Niger Delta, and Orphans v Aliens, about a ragtag group of orphans living in an East African village who are forced to defend their orphanage from an alien attack,
Outside of his career as a filmmaker, Matthew founded and oversees the non-profit We Are Limitless. Since 2012 the NGO has been providing Rwandan and Congolese orphans and underprivileged youth with quality boarding school educations and health-care. He also owns a popular restaurant in Rwanda's capital city Kigali named after his mother, Lavana.
In 2020 Matthew and producing partner Anton Laines formed KG28Media in Rwanda and began following the real life stories of an all female boxing team in DR Congo for an upcoming docu-series. Matthew wrote a dramatized version of their story and in August 2022 directed the feature film Fight Like A Girl, based on the true story of a young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mine who escapes her captors and finds a new life as a professional boxer. The film has been nominated for 8 Africa Movie Academy Awards (2023) including Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Cinematography. The film will premiere on the U.S. film festival circuit in 2024.
Matthew and Anton are developing several TV series and films in East Africa and India through their new production company, including Mattuta Rua (Dead Waters), a thriller set against the world of oil piracy in the Niger Delta, and Orphans v Aliens, about a ragtag group of orphans living in an East African village who are forced to defend their orphanage from an alien attack,
Outside of his career as a filmmaker, Matthew founded and oversees the non-profit We Are Limitless. Since 2012 the NGO has been providing Rwandan and Congolese orphans and underprivileged youth with quality boarding school educations and health-care. He also owns a popular restaurant in Rwanda's capital city Kigali named after his mother, Lavana.
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