Joddy Eric Matthews, the Writer/Director of the upcoming urban sci-fi anthology streaming series, The Baobab Tree, is a Clio Award Winning Director, Cinematographer, Editor and VFX Artist with a wide range of credits, including directing spots for Altria, General Electric, Dow Chemical, USVision, JC Penney Optical, Phillip Morris, Vodaphone, General Motors, Winslow and Sherwin Williams. Recently, he produced and edited the Network Television show,
CaribbeanGirlNYC. The dramatic comedy, produced by Overeasy/Gwada of Guadeloupe and CaribbeanTales of Canada, premiered on FranceTV and FLOWTV, and directed the streaming episodic, Daughters of Legend, starring Kimberly Brown (Daughter of NFL Legend Jim Brown), and Robin Charles (Daughter of the Legendary Ray Charles). His current creative effort finds him serving as an American Cinematographer on the Israeli-produced Netflix Doc, The Devil Next Door about the life of the convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk.
On the directing side, Joddy has recently helmed the Fox/Bally Sports Documentary King of The Block, Hulu feature #50Fathers (Best Feature, GCUFF, TIFF), along with CCBFF 2015 Best webisode and upcoming AppleTV Plus Realtime Virtual Production Series Nina Blue: Seeing Tomorrow and well-received documentaries including Capoeira: Live The Game (2018 Latin Festival Winner), have screened at thirty-seven film festivals in twelve countries. 2020 and 2018 also saw Joddy snag Best Documentary wins for three films, Soul Food, Capoeira: PLAY, and Sankofa: Solving X (The Cannes affiliated Capital City Black Film Festival and The Urban Film Festival) along with a PBS airing for the doc One Team.


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