Thaddeus D. Matula

Thaddeus D. Matula (Double Life Films) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director; including 2x ESPN 30 for 30 films, in addition to projects for HBO, BBC, PBS, THE GRAMMYs, and many more. In 2010 Matula directed the Peabody Award-winning film Pony Excess about the NCAA-mandated "death penalty" on the SMU football program. When the film debuted on ESPN in December of that year, after the Heisman Trophy presentation, it landed as the highest rated documentary premiere in the network's history. He followed it up in 2014, re-teaming with ESPN to direct the Emmy-winning Brian & The Boz, a father-son story about the dual personalities of the gifted and conflicted University of Oklahoma and Seattle Seahawk linebacker Brian Bosworth. Since then Matula has served as a producer on projects on a broad range of topics including the opioid epidemic, the prep basketball star Rush brothers, brain drugs, the cryptocurrency craze, and the inventor of the modern day basketball jump shot. He has also spent time developing and filming portions of documentary projects on Kenyan runner Kipchoge "Kip" Keino, the current transformation of the city of Austin into a major international city, and the saving of an endangered species in Jamaica. In 2020, Matula is excited to be returning to his narrative writing and directing roots with the production of As I Live and Breathe followed in 2021 by the feature-length version of The Dreamer, the full epic realization of his college-era 1999 science fiction short film of the same name that first brought him international renown.