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Joddy Eric Matthews, the Writer/Director of the upcoming urban sci-fi anthology streaming series, The Baobab Tree, is a Clio Award Winning Director, Cinematographer, Editor and VFX Artist with a wide range of credits, including directing spots for Altria, General Electric, Dow Chemical, USVision, JC Penney Optical, Phillip Morris, Vodaphone, General Motors, Winslow and Sherwin Williams. Recently, he produced and edited the Network Television show,
CaribbeanGirlNYC. The dramatic comedy, produced by Overeasy/Gwada of Guadeloupe and CaribbeanTales of Canada, premiered on FranceTV and FLOWTV, and directed the streaming episodic, Daughters of Legend, starring Kimberly Brown (Daughter of NFL Legend Jim Brown), and Robin Charles (Daughter of the Legendary Ray Charles). His current creative effort finds him serving as an American Cinematographer on the Israeli-produced Netflix Doc, The Devil Next Door about the life of the convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk.
On the directing side, Joddy has recently helmed the Fox/Bally Sports Documentary King of The Block, Hulu feature #50Fathers (Best Feature, GCUFF, TIFF), along with CCBFF 2015 Best webisode and upcoming AppleTV Plus Realtime Virtual Production Series Nina Blue: Seeing Tomorrow and well-received documentaries including Capoeira: Live The Game (2018 Latin Festival Winner), have screened at thirty-seven film festivals in twelve countries. 2020 and 2018 also saw Joddy snag Best Documentary wins for three films, Soul Food, Capoeira: PLAY, and Sankofa: Solving X (The Cannes affiliated Capital City Black Film Festival and The Urban Film Festival) along with a PBS airing for the doc One Team.
- May 15, 1993
Journey into The Belly of The Beast
Fresh from film school and his first independently made 16mm feature film, Matthews ventures into the world of Computer Generated Animation after watching Jurassic Park. His passion and intense focus drive him to learn the IRIX OS based Softimage 3d, the software behind the film's legendary computer generated dinosaurs.
- January 1, 1998
A Phantom Menace
Joddy broke ground in the early 90’s by being one of only a handful of African Americans to enter and work in the visual effects business. Later in the decade, he joined Alias as a part of the visual effects technical crew that researched fluid and particle dynamics for the company’s groundbreaking new animation software, Maya.
- February 1, 2001
Imagine... Everything I MadWerkz
Returning to his home town of Cleveland for family, Joddy founded MadWerkz Studios. Leveraging his work as a Creative Director, Director, Animator and Post Production professional, MadWerkz has turned into one of the largest minority creative boutique of its kind.
- June 15, 2004
The City Agenda
In 2004 and 2005, Joddy directed the local Emmy award-winning video, The City Agenda, featuring R&B Singer Usher for The YMCA along with Get out the Vote commercials with 21st District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge and Sean Combs.
- October 23, 2009
A Decade of Humble Hustle I Directing
The next decade saw Joddy helm several films including the award winning docudrama The Bubble, and the dramatic short ReversALL. He also directed and wrote the award winning Sci-Fi webisode, Nina Blue: Seeing Tomorrow which is being turned into a episodic series for AppleTV.
- July 30, 2016
Pass Interference
Joddy teamed up with Director Branson Wright (Believeland) to edit the documentary, Pass Interference: The Davone Bess Story. A gripping story of an NFL player's battle with the effects of living as a bipolar athlete.
- October 10, 2016
Best of The Best
Joddy wrote and directed the smash feature film, #50Fathers (Best Feature, GCUFF,
TIFF), then in 2018 and 2020 he snagged Best Documentary wins for three films, Soul Food, Capoeira: PLAY and Sankofa: Solving X (The Cannes affiliated Capital City Black Film Festival and The Urban Film Festival) along with a PBS airing for the doc, One Team. - May 19, 2018
Shaping Caribbean Girls
In 2018, Joddy served as Producer and Senior Editor for the Network Television show,
CaribbeanGirlNYC. The dramatic comedy, produced by Overeasy/Gwada of Guadeloupe and CaribbeanTales of Canada, premiered on the FranceTV and FLOWTV. - October 2, 2018
Visions of a Devil Next Door
In 2018, Joddy lent his visionary eye while serving as American Cinematographer on the Israeli produced Netflix Doc, The Devil Next Door about the life of the convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk.
- August 10, 2022
King of The Block
In 2022, Joddy again teamed up with Executive Producer, Branson Wright to helm the sports documentary King of The Block. The Fox/Bally Sports feature weaved the story of the intense 50 year rival in two southern Ohio football teams with an intriguing personal drama of two lifelong friends.
- August 8, 2023
Daughters of Legend
In 2023, Joddy directed an episode of the streaming episodic, Daughters of Legend, starring Kimberly Brown (Daughter of NFL Legend Jim Brown), and Robin Charles (Daughter of the Legendary Ray Charles).
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