Matthew Avant

Matthew Avant is a writer, director and producer who began his career in 1998 as a studio engineer, recording and mixing albums for musical artists ranging in genre from country to rap. Through this experience he moved into production for television and commercial projects, including Nashville-based "Songwriters in the Round", later titled "Legends and Lyrics" which aired on PBS. After several years in local television he completed a script for his first feature project "Lunopolis", a self-financed mock-documentary connecting established conspiracy theories about the moon, time travel and UFO's. The movie was well received at festivals and underground film review sites across the internet and is now hailed as a cult-classic, often attributed as the first narrative story to address the phenomena now known as "The Mandela Effect". It released officially in 2011 on DVD and was available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime until 2017, and remains available on YouTube, Tubi and various other streaming services. In early 2011 Avant was honored at Glen Rose Film Festival for best science fiction screenplay and offered a position with the production team in development of speculative TV series "Ghostbreakers" as a senior editor and sound designer. The series, featuring the lead performance of host Joey Greco (Cheaters), was produced as a 19 episode pilot season, later distributed on Amazon Prime. In 2014 he earned a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Suncoast Chapter) Emmy Award before relocating to Nashville as Senior Producer of Original Programming for Rural Media Group, where he went on to write and direct a variety of television programs for the network including the award-winning series "Dude Ranch Roundup" hosted by Debbe Dunning ("Heidi" of ABC's "Home Improvement"), and the 10 episode limited series "Wild Kingdom: Protecting the Wild". Today Avant continues to produce new and upcoming programs for the network, as well as a multitude of personal projects through his producing firm "Media Savant LLC", and production partnership "Brave New Agents".