MATTHEW CURLEWIS has been resident in Amsterdam since 2003, working across a number of different writing styles. He is a commissioned screenwriter, advertising copywriter, journalist, spoken word performance artist and script consultant.

In 2009 his feature film project Breath of Life was shortlisted for the internationally prestigious Sundance Sloan Foundation Commissioning Grant, and his Ka-Ching Cartoons commissioned script Kakkerlak! A Nuclear Opera received grant monies from the Dutch Film Fund.

Matthew's client list includes the Binger Filmlab, Time Out Amsterdam, PUMA Fragrances, CineMart - International Film Festival Rotterdam, IdtV Films, Fantastic Man, Amsterdam Weekly, and Christina Aguilera Fragrances.

Matthew led a number of sold out workshops in creative writing and screenwriting with Amsterdam's wordsinhere, before founding Amsterdam Writers in 2009.

He holds certificates in Scriptwriting and Script Editing from the Binger Filmlab, a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Criticism and Performance Studies from New York University, and is a certified Workshop Leader in the Amherst Writers and Artists Training Method.