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Eamonn Matthews, Quicksilver Media's Managing Director, is a renowned programme maker and executive producer. As Executive Producer of ‘The Death Squads he was part of the team that won the 2007 RTS International Current Affairs Award. In 2006 he won a BAFTA for his role as Executive Producer of the C4 film ‘Beslan’. (‘incredibly powerful and beautifully constructed…impeccable levels of editorial judgement’ - The Observer). First as Series Producer, and then as Executive Producer, he helped grow Unreported World into one of Channel 4’s most acclaimed strands. (‘One of the handful of programmes that act as a bulwark against the crushing idiocy of television…’ - The Times).
Projects he has recently executive produced include:
When Did You Last Beat Your Wife?
"...Excellent, urgent, chilling..."The Guardian.
Spinning Terror (50’, C4)
"A sustained and factual attack that made for anxiety-inducing viewing" – Daily Mail
The Doomsday Code, (120’, C4)
A major film about US apocalyptic beliefs presented by Tony Robinson
Network of Torture, (50’)
A documentary for C4’s Torture Season
"The best in the season" – Independent on Sunday)
Invading Iraq
2 hours for C4/PBS:
"Powerful and Enthralling TV" Sunday Times”, “ A match for ‘The World at War’ in terms of its mix of strategic and grunt-level perspectives, its command of pertinent detail, and its insight." - Newsday
Death in Kashmir (60’, C4)
“Powerful compelling journalism” - The Mail
“Superb…a vivid memorable, unsettling piece of television” – The Observer
The 9/11 Conspiracies (60’ for C4)
“Fascinating viewing” – Daily Express
The Clintons
A Marriage of Power. (C4 3x60’).
Winner, UK 'Indie' award for best documentary series, BAFTA nomination
Gaza: The Killing Zone (C4 60’)
was nominated for the RTS International Award, and won the Rory Peck award. Eamonn also launched the current affairs strand 30 Minutes for C4 and the Morgan and Platell political talk show.
Among the many films he made as a producer/director his series War in Europe (C4/WGBH in the US), a history of the Kosovo conflict, was described by the Observer as ‘an important piece of TV…disturbingly enthralling’, by the Daily Mail as ‘magisterial’ and by the Sunday Times as ‘graphic and well informed’. The Baby Makers, a history of IVF (C4/Discovery), was described by the London Sunday Times as ‘exemplary – fascinating and moving’, by the Observer as ‘extraordinary – completely gripping’, and by the Times as having ‘all the suspense of a Hollywood thriller’. (British Medical Association Medical Broadcaster of the Year.) His BBC/PBS series The Gulf War drew large audiences in the US and UK, and has become the definitive account of that war, regularly repeated in the US and UK. The LA Times said it was ‘as good as war documentaries get’; the Washington Post described the series as ‘brilliant’, the NY Times as ‘vivid and steadily illuminating.’ The London Times remarked ‘An enthralling series …We seem to be living in a golden age of documentaries’.
His documentaries for the BBC from Bosnia were described by the Independent as ‘some of the most honourable documents of that terrible war’. His account of life in Sarajevo was described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the best TV account yet of the appalling carnage..exceptional TV’. (NY Film Festival Award). Of his account of the siege of Mostar the same paper said ‘..the kind of journalism that makes the BBC distinctive. (Prix Italia Silver prize)
As Deputy Editor of the BBC’s Newsnight, Eamonn was one of three BBC staff in Baghdad during the outbreak of the 1991 Gulf War. He was expelled by the Iraqi Government and then made a series of award winning films in Kuwait in the days after its recapture. (RTS Special Award) Among other notable points in his career was a year spent with Mujahideen fighters inside Afghanistan as the Soviet forces withdrew, resulting in The Hollow Victory. (BBC Panorama - ‘the best Afghan footage seen’ – The Guardian.) |
