Matt Wyeth
mattwyeth@g.ucla.edu
Survivors
Teen drama / coming of age
Inspired by a true story, Survivors follows a 12-year-old boy named Jeremy who leaves his small mountain town to attend a week-long church camp where children are trained to be anti-abortion activists. It's a camp film, a coming of age story, and a real-world thriller, all in one.
Alma Mater: Azusa Pacific University, UCLA
Inspiration: The films of Charlie Kaufman, PTA, a box of old b-movie thrillers from the 90s on VHS in my closet
Bio: Matt Wyeth is from Crestline California and attended Azusa Pacific University where he majored in screenwriting. After college he spent 5 years working as a producer for Render Media (a branch of the Vice Network) before deciding to return to school at UCLA and focus on his writing. As a member of the feature track, Wyeth's writing focuses on dark and absurd stories with a personal twist. While in the program he workshopped such scripts as "Bad Lasagna," a story about a boy who gets food poisoning at 3am and hallucinates his suicidal brother has come back to life for the night, and "The Night Watch," a voyeristic thriller about park rangers trying to find clues in the woods after a campground murder.
mattwyeth@g.ucla.edu
Survivors
Teen drama / coming of age
Inspired by a true story, Survivors follows a 12-year-old boy named Jeremy who leaves his small mountain town to attend a week-long church camp where children are trained to be anti-abortion activists. It's a camp film, a coming of age story, and a real-world thriller, all in one.
Alma Mater: Azusa Pacific University, UCLA
Inspiration: The films of Charlie Kaufman, PTA, a box of old b-movie thrillers from the 90s on VHS in my closet
Bio: Matt Wyeth is from Crestline California and attended Azusa Pacific University where he majored in screenwriting. After college he spent 5 years working as a producer for Render Media (a branch of the Vice Network) before deciding to return to school at UCLA and focus on his writing. As a member of the feature track, Wyeth's writing focuses on dark and absurd stories with a personal twist. While in the program he workshopped such scripts as "Bad Lasagna," a story about a boy who gets food poisoning at 3am and hallucinates his suicidal brother has come back to life for the night, and "The Night Watch," a voyeristic thriller about park rangers trying to find clues in the woods after a campground murder.