MATTHEW CORMACK
SCREENWRITER

Matthew is an AACTA and AWGIE-winning screenwriter. His writing credits include feature film 52 Tuesdays, for which he won Best Original Screenplay at the AWGIE Awards and the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale Film Festival, writer and co-creator of limited series The Hunting for SBS which he won Best Screenplay for Television (Ep 3) at the AACTA Awards, and Best Miniseries at the AWGIE Awards and episodic series Fucking Adelaide for ABC. His upcoming features are Jimpa, a queer multi-generational family story starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow, and An Ideal Wife, a biopic about Oscar Wilde’s wife, Constance Lloyd, starring Emilia Clarke. Between 2009 and 2021, Matthew worked in development, production, and sales with Adelaide-based Closer Productions across such projects as feature documentaries In My Blood It Runs, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, Life in Movement and Sam Klemke’s Time Machine, hybrid doco/drama I Want to Dance Better at Parties, co-creator of transmedia project My 52 Tuesdays. His debut short film My Last Ten Hours With You, also produced by Closer Productions won the Best Film at the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, as well as Best Oz Short at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Matthew has also been script editor on various projects including feature drama Animals (2019) and ABC series Aftertaste (2021).