MATT PINDER
Matt Pinder is an 11-times BAFTA Scotland award–winning filmmaker and the creator of two of the BBC’s most watched and acclaimed true-crime series — Murder Trial and Murder Case. Based in Glasgow, his work is grounded in exceptional and intimate access, trust, cinematic craft, and emotionally intelligent storytelling.
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With more than two decades experience working for most of the major UK broadcasters, Matt has produced, directed, filmed and edited a variety of lauded and popular titles. They stretch from prime-time observational series and feature length films to archive based documentaries and international social-issue investigations. His work often secures rare access to institutions and individuals, spanning communities, families, education, business and the criminal justice system.
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The quality - technical, aesthetic, emotional - of Matt’s filmmaking has been recognised with a long list of industry honours, including awards and nominations from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, Grierson, Broadcast, and Bulldog.
PRESS
"The Hunt for Bible John - Is this the best true crime documentary ever made?
The first big true-crime documentary of the year is one of the best I’ve seen.... In other hands, this could easily have become just another true-crime documentary, trading on nothing but cheap gratification and bloodlust. What’s so impressive here is how keenly the series wants to fit the murders into a wider societal context. Less than a week in and we already have the best true-crime documentary of the year."
The Guardian on The Hunt for Bible John
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"A masterclass in how crime should be reported… Highly recommended"
The Herald on Murder Trial
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"Engaging and Affecting"
Mark Kermode on Films of Love and War
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"Exquisite"
Daily Express Films of Love and War
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"A resounding must watch... Incredibly thorough and illuminating...I found it completely fascinating... It's brilliant."
Scott Bryan, Radio Five Live on Murder Trial
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"Real heart-in-mouth viewing"
The Sun on Murder Trial
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"The Hunt for Bible John could have been just more true crime fodder, had it not been for the filmmaker, Matt Pinder. As he showed in his Bafta-winning Murder Case, and Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Margaret Fleming, Pinder can tell the most shocking of stories in a way that is always dignified, never sensationalist.... Pinder charted the steps and missteps in Scotland’s largest murder hunt via a superb cast of contributors that included crime reporters and detectives from the time, contemporary observers, and, most memorably of all, the husband of one of the women. There will doubtless be more retellings of the Bible John story, but it is hard to imagine any as informed and compassionate as this one."
The Herald on The Hunt for Bible John
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"Back for a second series is Murder Case. It can be difficult to find a place of your own in the crowded market for documentaries, far less those specialising in true crime. That word spread so far and fast about series one of Murder Case says a lot about its quality and originality."
The Herald on Murder Case
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"There are no embellishments to this look at a murder trial – and it’s all the better for it. This is an engrossing, dramatic take on the justice system which has you hanging on every thrust and parry... In a genre awash with lurid exploitation, this programme makes a convincing case for respectful diligence.... Murder Trial delivers the sort of drama that other crime documentaries have to manufacture.
The Guardian on Murder Trial
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