Matthew Galkin

MATTHEW GALKIN is an Emmy®-nominated, two time IDA Award-winning director and producer. Recently, Galkin directed the smash hit 4-part Amazon Prime series One Night in Idaho: The College Murders for Amazon Prime Video about the 2022 University of Idaho murders. The series was made in partnership with Skydance,, and author James Patterson.
Over the course of his 25-year career, Galkin has made dozens of projects, including numerous films for HBO: Kevorkian, the only all-access biographical film ever made about famed assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian; the award-winning HBO film I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA, about the founder of the infamous animal rights organization. He started his directing career with loudQUIETloud, a film about legendary rock band the Pixies that has since become a cult classic. Other selected work includes Showtime's Emmy®-winning Murder in Big Horn which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a 2024 Independent Spirit Award; and Showtime’s much celebrated first-ever true crime series Murder in the Bayou.
Prior to starting the production company Fairhaven in 2018, Galkin was partners with Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock at NY-based company Warrior Poets, where his work included the IDA Award-winning CNN series Inside Man; Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival; and the film One Direction: This is Us for Sony Pictures, one of the highest grossing concert films of all time.