Jon Matthews

In 2015, Matthews began filming a feature film, Khali the Killer.

During the summer of 2014, Matthews made a commercial for Castrol GTX Motor Oil. He also made a commercial for Chevrolet 4G LTE, which won second place in an international contest sponsored by MoFilm.

In the fall of 2014, Matthews programmed the inaugural Appalachian Queer Film Festival in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The festival, which he co-founded with activist Tim Ward, featured two films from Sundance and the Grand Jury winner from South by Southwest.

After graduation, Matthews moved to Los Angeles, where he has written several feature films, television pilots, and commercials. In 2013, he and actress Abby Wathen started a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for one of their projects.

In 2009 Matthews left his law practice and moved to New York City, where he attended New York University's graduate film program as a Dean's Fellow. In his third year at NYU, Matthews was hired as Spike Lee's assistant. Lee watched the footage for Matthews' thesis documentary and later awarded him a grant to finish the film, Surviving Cliffside. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. It later screened at the West Virginia International Film Festival.

Matthews enrolled in West Virginia University's College of Law in 1999. There he started an American Civil Liberties chapter and re-formed the National Lawyers Guild chapter at the law school. He graduated in 2002.

Jon Matthews, (born September 1, 1977) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor. He is best known for his documentary, Surviving Cliffside, which premiered at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival, and for "Black Dog, Red Dog" a film he co-directed with James Franco.