Matthew O'Neill

Matthew O’Neill is an Emmy® Award winning and Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently directed “She Runs The World,” a 2025 Tribeca Festival official selection, “The Last Twins,” in select theaters, “Can’t Look Away” for Bloomberg Originals and “Surveilled” with Ronan Farrow for HBO with Perri Peltz. O’Neill and Peltz also created the Emmy® winning HBO documentary news series “AXIOS on HBO” and directed and produced the 2019 HBO documentary "Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America."

O’Neill has been making non-fiction films and series with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in New York City's Chinatown for the last 25 years. His earlier projects for HBO, ESPN, Disney+, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American criminal justice system, and the School of American Ballet.

His filmmaking has taken him to more than 50 different countries for films, including "Baghdad ER," "In Tahrir Square" and "Wartorn." He has received two Academy Award nominations for "Redemption" and "China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" and has been recognized with two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, six Emmy Awards and a Director’s Guild nomination.