MATTHEW O'CONNOR - Partner

MATTHEW O'CONNOR | LISA RICHARDSON | TOM ROWE

Currently a partner in the production and financing company Reunion Pictures, O’Connor has throughout his career, produced over 1.5 billion dollars worth of production through his various companies.

In the 1980s, he formed Metro Pictures International, which produced music videos for 'Long John Baldry', 'Poisoned' and numerous other performing artists. Metro won two West Coast Music Awards for Best Video and went on to produce a feature presentation for The Canadian Pavilion at Expo ’86 in Vancouver, B.C.

O’Connor later founded Pacific Motion Pictures (PMP), which became one of Canada’s largest and most respected motion picture companies, producing more than 80 films. PMP later joined forces with other entertainment powerhouses to form Sextant Entertainment Group, a diversified media group in Vancouver B.C.

Having produced more than 100 hours of long form television, O’Connor’s projects have garnered numerous award nominations and wins. He received the prestigious Peabody Award for the television movie 'The Baby Dance'. His television movies, miniseries and features have garnered him multiple nominations for Emmy, Golden Globe, Genie (Canadian Oscars) and Gemini awards (Canadian Emmys). In 2003, O’Connor won the Gemini for Best Television Movie or Miniseries for the docudrama '100 Days in the Jungle'. O’Connor has produced films for such major studios as Columbia Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Tri-Star. 'Magic In the Water', a fantasy adventure starring Mark Harmon and Joshua Jackson, won a Genie Award in sound and cinematography. Other films include Kiss The Sky, starring William Petersen and Gary Cole, the comedy thriller Masterminds with a cast headed by Patrick Stewart, the romantic drama Bliss, starring Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee and Terence Stamp, and 'A Boy Called Hate', starring James Caan and Elliott Gould.