Matthew Ford

​Matthew is a gifted screenwriter with a talent for writing snappy, engaging scripts. Matthew co-founded Watchers Productions, a non-profit production team, which creates web content and short films, writing episodes for comedy drama series Whovians (nominated Best Web Series in 2017’s UK Online Festival). Between 2017 to 2019, Matthew wrote a number of sketches with Watchers Productions for the comedy series Sketchy AF, including “Foul-mouthedagony aunt” (an agony aunt on a ‘This Morning’ style show with no regard for TV etiquette) and “Radio Diva” (a singer for local radio ads thinks he is Wales’s answer to Mariah Carey). Matthew’s science fiction short Brand New Beginnings was shortlisted for 2020’s BAFTA Cymru-qualifyer Carmarthen Bay FilmFestival, Lift-Off Global Network First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, and 2021’s Swansea Fringe Festival. In 2022, Matthew’s comedy short, Heaven’s Overrated, was selected for the It’s My Shout scheme,with the film broadcast on BBC Two Wales. Matthew’s unproduced scripts have won and been nominated for awards. Ghost story All Alone, Notby Myself won Best Horror Screenplay (Short) in 2019’s Grim North Screenplay Festival. Comedyhorror Killing the Music was nominated for the same award the following year, as well as being afinalist in 13horror.com’s short screenplay competition. Matthew’s comedy short Would-Be Hero was nominated for Best Unproduced Screenplay in 2020’s Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards.