Matthew Galkin

MATTHEW GALKIN is an Emmy®-nominated, two time IDA Award-winning director and producer. Recently Galkin directed, alongside Liz Garbus, the smash hit 4-part Amazon Prime series One Night in Idaho: The College Murders for Amazon Prime Video^[1] about the 2022 University of Idaho murders. The series was made in partnership with Skydance, Story Syndicate, 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.

Wikinews has related news:

• Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of PETA, on animal rights and the film about her life

• New York Times profile of Galkin and his brothers Jonathan Galkin and Andrew
• HBO interview with Galkin about Kevorkian
• Interview with Galkin about loudQUIETloud
• I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA at IMDb