Matthew Leutwyler


Matthew Steven Leutwyler, is an American screenplay writer, film director, and producer.

Life and career

Leutwyler studied film at The San Francisco Art Institute.
His first feature film was the dark comedy/road picture Road Kill starring Jennifer Rubin, Erik Palladino, Brian Vander Ark, Anthony Denison, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jon Polito. Made on a budget of $180,000, the film premiered at the 1999 Santa Barbara International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
Leutwyler wrote and directed the comedy/horror/musical Dead & Breakfast, starring Jeremy Sisto, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and David Carradine. The film went on to win over a dozen audience and best feature film awards around the world and was nominated for a Saturn Award. Since then he has produced or exec produced The Oh in Ohio starring Parker Posey and Paul Rudd; Lower Learning with Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs, and Rob Corddry; Against the Current with Joseph Fiennes, Mary Tyler Moore and Justin Kirk ; the Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan drama Wonderful World ; and Every Day, starring Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber.
May 6, 2011 Deadline Hollywood announced that he will be producing the Catherine Hardwicke -directed drama The Bitch Posse. He will be producing alongside his Ambush Entertainment partner Miranda Bailey and Title IX partners Virginia Madsen and Karly Meola.
Leutwyler directed the adaptation of the novel The River Why starring William Hurt, Zach Gilford, and Amber Heard. He also exec produced James Gunn's Super starring Rainn Wilson and Elliot Page; the 3D horror comedy Hellbenders and the comedy-drama The Girl Most Likely, starring Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening. He wrote and directed the ensemble drama Answers to Nothing starring Dane Cook, Barbara Hershey, and Julie Benz.
He produced the award-winning food documentary Spinning Plates.
Leutwyler co-founded the theatrical distributor The Film Arcade in 2012. For two years, he worked on the marketing of Jill Soloway's Sundance winner and Independent Spirit Award nominee Afternoon Delight starring Kathryn Hahn and Jane Lynch, as well as other Sundance entries The Other Dream Team, and A.C.O.D. with Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, and Jessica Alba. He left the company in 2014.
On January 31, 2015, Leutwyler premiered Uncanny at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Uncanny is a science fiction film about the world's first "perfect" Artificial Intelligence who begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter begins a relationship with the scientist who created it.

Filmography

ProducerLower Learning Wonderful World Every Day Spinning Plates The Bitch Posse
Executive producerThe Oh in Ohio Against the Current Super Imogene Hellbenders
Television
YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
2001Undressed8 episodes
2009StuckTV movie
2018Voluntees, a Rwandan ComedyTV movie
2020State of Siege: 26/11Web series