FIGHT LIKE A GIRL Docu-series (currently in production) Created by Matthew Leutwyler & Anton Laines. The incredible story of the women of Congo’s all female boxing club and their coach’s rise from child soldier to national hero.

FIGHT LIKE A GIRL Scripted Feature Film (Release: 2026). A young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors and finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma. PRESS KIT

Based on a True Story. Shot on location in DR Congo and Rwanda.

Nominated for 8 African Movie Academy Awards. Incl. Best Actress, Best supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, and Winner for Best Original Score (Coby Brown)

Winner Best Film, South African Independent Film Festival

Winner Best Film (Critics), Dances With Films: Los Angeles

Winner, Audience Award - Black Lens, Sidewalk Film Festival, Alabama

Winner, Rising Star Award - Ama Qamata, Naples Int'l Film Festival

Opening Night Film - Vancouver Int'l Black Film Festival

Opening Night Film - Toronto Int'l Black Film Festival

Official Selection: American Black Film Festival, IFFI-Goa, India, FESPACO, N.Y. African Film Festival

Starring: Ama Qamata, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clarck Ntambwe, Bahali Ruth, Arthur Nkusi, Kennedy Mazimpaka

Written + Directed by Matthew Leutwyler, Produced by Anton Laines, Executive Producers Serge Ibaka, Colin Gayle, Producers Innocent Munyeshuri, Yvette Gayle

Buffalo 8 Presents a KG28Media Production in association with Africa Creative Agency and Ouenze Entertainment

Directed by Matthew Leutwyler Director of Photography Richard Henkels

STATE OF SIEGE: 26/11 Crime Thriller. 8 Episode Series. Directed by Matthew Leutwyler.

Based on true events surrounding the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

Nominated for 6 FilmFare Awards.

An extended look at how this ambitious project is made every week - In the words of the cast and crew from around the world... Including the adjustments made to the story after George Floyd as killed. Created by Matthew Leutwyler & Anton Laines

DISCONNECTED. Created and Produced by Matthew Leutwyler & Anton Laines.

A weekly, experimental series shot by the actors and produced remotely, while under countrywide quarantine orders in USA, INDIA, UK, and RWANDA. A new episode will be available every Thursday. "In the midst of a global pandemic, a group of friends from around the world reconnect while managing the new challenges in front of them."

In what MovieMaker has called “a Steven Soderbergh kind of ambition and scope,” all participants are shooting with the best equipment available while adhering to social distancing rules.

Created & Written by Matthew Leutwyler, Erik Palladino, and Vincent Ventresca Starring Erik Palladino, Vincent Ventresca, Simon Rwema, Elvis Shema, Arthur Nkusi, Solange Uwamahoro, Mark Kelly, Innocent Munyeshuri Directed & Edited by Matthew Leutwyler Promo Trailer Produced & Edited by Chris Miloslavich, Milomix Productions www.milomix.com

VOLUNTEERS: A Rwandan Comedy. TV Pilot Directed and Edited by Matthew Leutwyler

Starring: Erik Palladino, Vincent Ventresca, Simon Rwema, Solange Uwamahoro, Arthur Nkusi, Elvis Shema, Mark Kelly
Created & Written by Matthew Leutwyler, Erik Palladino, and Vincent Ventresca

ORPHANS vs ALIENS (OvA) Feature Film and Graphic Novel Created by Matthew Leutwyler & Anton Laines. Artwork by Jules Mutuga.

A ragtag group of forgotten kids defend their orphanage in rural Rwanda from an alien that hitched a ride on a meteorite that crashed into their pigsty.

UNCANNY  Directed & Edited by Matthew Leutwyler. Written by Shahin Chandrasoma.   Cast: Mark Webber, David Clayton Rogers, Lucy Griffiths, Rainn Wilson.

UNCANNY Press Notes (.pdf)

GOOD AFTER BAD. Written & Directed by Anne-Marie Hess. Produced by Matthew Leutwyler. Executive Produced by Morgan Spurlock.  Cast: Maddie Hasson, Billy Burke, and Melora Walters. 

Starring Kristen Wiig, Annette Benning, Matt Dillon & Darren Chris. Join us on Facebook http://FB.com/FreshMovieTrailers Girl Most Likely Movie Trailer, in theaters July 19, 2013. Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.

GIRL MOST LIKELY.  Directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini.  Cast: Kristen Wiig, Annette Benning, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss.

SPINNING PLATES. Directed by Joseph Levy.  Multi-award winning documentary featuring three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are.

This is the trailer for the movie "The River Why", starring Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, Kathleen Quinlan, Dallas Roberts, William Devane and William Hurt. The feature length movie was completed in 2010 and is based on the acclaimed novel of the same name. Directed by Matthew Leutwyler.

THE RIVER WHY. Directed by Matthew Leutwyler.  Cast: Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt. Based on the acclaimed novel.

When sad-sack loser Frank sees his ex-addict wife willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer, he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But, inspired shortly after by fictional man-made superheroes of lore, he decides to fight back under the guise of a DIY crimefighter, the Crimson Bolt.

SUPER. Directed by James Gunn. Cast: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion, Liv Tyler.

EVERY DAY. - Directed by Richard Levine. Produced by Matthew Leutwyler and Miranda Bailey. Starring Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Carla Gugino, Ezra Miller, Brian Dennehy, and Eddie Izzard