Matthew O'Neill is an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently created the HBO documentary news series Axios on HBO with Perri Peltz. Perri & Matthew also co-directed and produced the 2019 HBO Documentary, Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Matthew has been making non-fiction television and films with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in NYC's Chinatown for the last 20 years. His earlier films for HBO, ESPN, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the American criminal justice system. For his filming he has been recognized with two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, four Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations.