Metamora Films: Transforming Hearts and Minds through Film

After a successful release of his award winning documentary, NOT FOR RENT! , a film on the formerly incarcerated and the severe rental housing restrictions they face, filmmaker Matt Duhamel continues the theme of personal storytelling with an upcoming short documentary film series.  VANCOUVER, Washington (PRWEB) March 12, 2018 Keeping with the theme of thought-provoking and dramatic work, filmmaker, Matt Duhamel continues his mission of transforming hearts and minds through film, with a short documentary series entitled, “This is My Story” , which is slated to start production this summer. Duhamel promises simple yet unique and powerful stories, the ones that keep you thinking days, weeks, even years after. Metamora Films , Duhamel’s independent film company, has been producing thought-provoking and transformative film projects for over five years now, while concentrating on social justice issues and storytelling. Duhamel developed Metamora Films to fill a growing void in so...

Metamora Film Festival Site Has Launched June 30, 2017 Metamora Films continues to expand in 2017! Keeping with a similar mission as Metamora Films, the festival strives to promote indie films that inspire, transform and educate. The festival recognizes filmmakers in their creative film endeavors and hopes to impact the world using the power of film.  Dramas, documentaries, shorts, student films, social justice, human rights, spiritual…these are just a few examples of genres presented at the Metamora Film Festival .  The festival awards prizes 3x per year: spring, summer and fall. After a successful spring, 2017 session, Director, Matt Duhamel says he hopes that in 2018, the festival can hold live film screenings either in Vancouver, Washington or Portland, Oregon.  Co-Directors and judges of the festival include: Deanna Hays of Santa Rosa, CA and Carolyn Esparza of Dallas, Texas. The Me...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Park City, Utah, January 25, 2017 For the second year in a row, filmmaker and on-air host, Matt Duhamel covered the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.  The Metamora Films’ director was on the red carpet of dozens of narrative and documentary film screenings talking with cast and crew about their premiering movie and the underlying meaning of the film’s plot.  Using a unique angle of ‘transformative and thought-provoking filmmaking’, Duhamel’s interviews with such celebrities as Kevin Bacon, Ray Romano, Tim Robbins, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, Elle Fanning and film Director, Charlie McDowell, focused on character attributes, themes, and influential subject matter. Documentary filmmaker, Kitty Green, along with her producers, Scott Macaulay and James Schamus, spoke with Duhamel during the release of the risk-taking film, ‘ Casting JonBenet .’  Green left the hybrid of nonfiction and fiction documentary open to discussion...

We are excited to be launching a complete overhaul of our Metamora Films ‘ website.  Since our website launch May 2013, we’ve undergone two website re-designs.  I remember designing our first simple layout during that spring and was excited to get Metamora Films and our mission out to the world.  Since our inception, our website traffic has grown significantly.  Generally, we advertise our films and projects by word of mouth, social media, and interaction with the public during our film releases and public speaking presentations such as the workshop I gave earlier this year at the InterNational Prisoner’s Family Conference in Dallas, Texas.  You can also check out our new logo film opener which was released in June: In addition to our new look, we’ve revamped MetamoraTV and introduced our first video podcast, ‘ Solitary Nation ‘. MetamoraTV produces thought-provoking journalism through video, photography, artwork, writing, graphic arts and any...

Jail is a scary place.  I know, I’ve been there (luckily only 5 days, but it was hell because of my charges!)  The general public often does not know the differences between jail and prison.  According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics ,  jails are locally-operated, short term facilities that hold inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both, and inmates sentenced to a term of less than 1 year, typically misdemeanors. Prisons are long term facilities run by the state or the federal government and typically hold felons and inmates with sentences of more than 1 year.  This means that in local jails, there’s a HUGE mixture of inmates with a wide variety of low and high level offenses all together in the same pod!  For example, to the left of you is an inmate with twenty-five unpaid parking tickets; to the right is an inmate with armed-robbery charges.  I think of Tom Hanks famous line in the film, Forest Gump , “Mama always said life was li...