Joshua David Matthews is an award-winning filmmaker born in Alabama, educated in Georgia, and living in Texas. Joshua's thesis film, "Dawn", has screened at film festivals across the globe, including in LA, the Cannes Short Film Corner, and the prestigious CAMERIMAGE in Poland. After earning his MFA, Joshua went into directing and producing documentaries, and was commissioned to direct "Elias", a short documentary on Dr. Elias Ghanem - the "Doctor to the Stars". In 2018, he was permitted to follow and document Operation Identification, a group of forensic anthropologists who identify and repatriate the remains of migrants who pass away while crossing the border. As a writer, Joshua has earned numerous placements in screenwriting competitions. His short screenplay, "Boneseed", won Third Place for Best Unproduced Short Screenplay at FilmQuest (2022), was a Finalist in ScreenCraft's Short Screenplay Competition (2022), a Semi-Finalist in both the HollyShorts Film Festival (2022) and Killer Shorts Horror Screenplay Competition (2020), and was a Quarterfinalist in both Filmmatic's Short Screenplay Competition (2021) and Short Horror Competition (2021). "Last Mile", a feature-length horror/thriller, was a Quarterfinalist in The Script Lab's Screenplay Competition. His short screenplay, "Memories of a House", was a Killer Shorts Semifinalist and HorrOrigins Quarterfinalist in 2023.