Matthew Saville is an award-winning director for film and television.

His most recent credits include BLACK SNOW (Goalpost Pictures/Sundance TV), which was nominated for several Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, and the miniseries UPRIGHT (Lingo Pictures), starring Tim Minchin, which earned him an Australian Director’s Guild (ADG) Award for Best Direction in a TV Comedy Series.

Matthew directed the acclaimed drama RAKE (ABC), and FRIDAY ON MY MIND (Playmaker/ABC), a miniseries based on Australian band The Easybeats, for which he received an ADG Award nomination for Best Direction of a TV Miniseries.

Matthew directed season four of PLEASE LIKE ME (ABC), Josh Thomas’ multi-award-winning comedy series listed on the 2019 The New York Times list of Best International TV Shows of the Decade. The fifth episode of which, ‘Burrito Bowl,’ earned Matthew a ADG Award for Best Direction in a TV Comedy Program.

Matthew also directed the first three series of PLEASE LIKE ME, and won an ADG Award for Best Direction for his episodes ‘Portuguese Custard Tarts’ and ‘Scroggin.’

His other television credits include SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY (Matchbox Pictures), THE FUTURE IS EXPENSIVE (Goalpost Pictures/ABC), CLOUDSTREET (Screentime) and THE SLAP (Matchbox Pictures/ABC), on which he garnered an AACTA Award for his episode ‘Harry.’

He also directed TANGLE (Southern Star); WE CAN BE HEROES (Princess Pictures/ABC); THE KING (Fremantle Media), which won three AFI (AACTA) Awards; THE SURGEON (Network Ten); and EAST OF EVERYTHING (ABC).

Matthew wrote, directed, and produced the feature A MONTH OF SUNDAYS (2015), which premiered at TIFF. His film FELONY (2013) also premiered at TIFF two years earlier.

NOISE (2007), Matthew’s debut feature, premiered at Sundance and was nominated for nine AFI Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Director. NOISE was voted Best Australian Film by the Australian Film Critics’ Association, and won six Film Critics’ Circle of Australia Awards, including Best Direction and Best Film.

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