Matthew J Gunn

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About me

Bought up with a creative Mum, whose 60s/70s ideals of freedom, cinema, art and music, rubbed themselves onto her youngest son. Coupled with being a Leo (I was bought up with star signs) writing and making films was a wonderful star to ascend to (no matter what setbacks are faced I continue to reach for it).

Studying Film in Southampton during the Britpop era I was lucky enough to be tutored by the late great Ken Russell and Irish playwright Seamus Finnigan, both of whom I gained invaluable experience from.

Since graduating many moons ago I’ve been lucky enough to write in; Film (released features across cinemas, festivals, Blu-ray/DVD and VOD). Theatre (plays held at Rhoda McGraw, Courtyard Theatre and New Victoria). Books (two published fiction novels). Among my long-term collaborations have been Bafta nominees, White Lantern Films, award winning director, Mike Le Han, and multi-festival winning producer, Ben Richards. Colleges, universities and film schools have been crazy enough to hire me to run writing workshops, where it’s been an honour to help ignite flair and ambition in students and their ideas.

My joint true love alongside writing is Liverpool Football Club. A lifelong red, I still dream of playing for them despite being not only rubbish at football but way past a sportsmen’s retirement age! Taking us full circle, back to the best lesson my beautiful mum gave me ‘Never give up on your dreams, believe in yourself and you can achieve anything’.
Referees:
White Lantern Films Ltd
Adam Merrifield (Producer)
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Swing of the Shovel Productions Ltd
Eoghan Synnott (Director)
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Animus Pictures Ltd
Ben Richards (Producer)
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Additional information:
I have been hired by film companies worldwide to work on feature and tv concepts alongside the directors and producers, varying from; developing the story concept into full fledged shooting script, if a rough early script is already written working alongside the director to bring it to life and make it cinematic, to being given a strong script that needs a 2nd set of eyes as a script editor and scene by scene feedback notes, and developing concept treatment packages (pitch, bio’s, synopsis, creative statement, franchise potential, genre key pts, marketing plans and financial incentives) to help fully fund the projects.

I have examples of scripts written purely by me, scripts co-written with directors and concept funding treatment bibles, that can be sent via email.

They key aspects when creating any concept from my point of view have always been communication and collaboration, to get a project from blank page to filming to release it requires hard work, dedication and full commitment, all of which I’ve always prided myself on.

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Writer
Job Titles	Screenwriter, Script Writer, Writer, Script Editor, Script Reader, Showrunner, Script Supervisor / Coordinator, Teacher
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	Writers' Guild (UK)