Biography
Matthew Heineman (born November 30, 1983; Washington) is an American documentary filmmaker, director, and producer. His inspiration and fascination with American history led him to early success with the documentary film Cartel Land, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, a BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, and won three Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2009, Heineman founded his New York–based production company Our Time Projects, Inc., which would later release O...
Complete Filmography
American Symphony
2023
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Musician Jon Batiste attempts to compose a symphony as his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.
Transition
2023
Executive Producer
Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon has been living and working as a journalist and filmmaker in Afghanistan for more than six years. After the departur...
Retrograde
2022
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers...
The First Wave
2021
Director, Producer, Editor
When Covid-19 hit New York City in 2020, filmmaker Matthew Heineman gained unique access to one of New York’s hardest-hit hospital systems. The result...
The Boy from Medellín
2020
Producer, Director, Director of Photography
Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin prepares for his 2019 homecoming concert amid intense political turmoil.
A Private War
2018
Director, Producer
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conf...
When Lambs Become Lions
2018
Executive Producer
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wa...
City of Ghosts
2017
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen jo...
The Third Man
2016
Producer, Director
The moment where American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved hands in defiance on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics ...
Cartel Land
2015
Director, Producer, Editor
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Tem...
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
2012
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Our healthcare system is broken. Potent forces fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry created for quick fixes, rather than prevention;...
Our Time
2009
Director, Writer, Producer
America has questions about today's youth, what we care about, and where we're headed. We had those questions too. So, after graduating college, four ...
Overcoming the Storm
2006
Director, Producer, Writer
A documentary short that follows several residents of New Orleans' 9th Ward as they return to their homes for the first time after the devastation of ...
Untitled Maria Felix Biopic
N/A
Director
An upcoming biopic about Mexican film star Maria Felix.
Untitled Paradise Camp Fire Project
N/A
Director
The story, based on true events during the 2018 blaze that destroyed the town of Paradise, California, will center on Heather Roebuck, a pregnant woma...