Matthew Stillman

Matthew Stillman graduated from Sussex University (UK) in 1991 with a degree in Political Science. In 1992, after producing a short film and a documentary for an eye care charity, Stillman moved to Prague with the intention of setting up a production services company to facilitate filmmakers wishing to shoot in the Czech Republic. The following year Stillking Films was established. The company has since evolved into an international production network that produces feature films and commercials as well as providing production services throughout the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy and the UK. Additional support for the network is provided by an office in Los Angeles, set up in 1999 to facilitate the growing volume of film and commercial work originating in the USA.

Stillking Films has provided production services for more than 500 commercials and has worked with many of the leading international commercial directors including Jonathan Glazer, Tarsem, Tony Kaye, Michael Bay, Oliver Stone, Sam Bayer, Jake Scott, Andrew Douglas, David Cornell, Traktor, Joe Public, James Gartner, Frederic Planchon, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Roux, Leslie Dektor, Marcus Nispel, Vaughan Arnell and a host of others. Stillking directors have won awards at Cannes, The Clio Awards, Epica, Eurobest, Golden Drum, Nutcracker, Cresta, the Midsummer Awards, the Moscow Advertising Festival and the New York Advertising Awards.

Stillman has also served in a producing capacity on many of the films which Stillking has serviced, including ‘Triple X’ (2002 Revolution Studios/Rob Cohen) starring Vin Diesel and Samuel Jackson, ‘Shanghai Knights’ (2002 Spyglass/Disney/David Dobkin) starring Jackie Chan, ‘Bad Company’ (2001 Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Disney/Joel Schumacher) starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock, ‘Bourne Identity’ (2001 Universal/Doug Liman) starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente, ‘From Hell’ (2000 Fox/The Hughes Brothers) starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ (1999 New Line Cinema/Courtney Solomon) starring Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch and Marlon Wayans, Sasa Gedeon’s ‘Navrat Idiota’ (Czech Oscar Nominee 1999), ‘Plunkett and Macleane’ (Polygram/Jake Scott 1998) starring Liv Tyler and Robert Carlyle and ‘Into Thin Air: Death On Everest’ (1997 Columbia/Robert Markowitz) starring Peter Horton and Nat Parker.

In 2001 Stillman was nominated by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the ‘International Power 50’, a rundown of the biggest players in global entertainment and media.