Matthew Hannam

Matthew Hannam

History

Matthew Hannam (born September 8, 1981) is a Canadian film and television editor and director. He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for editing, winning the award for Best Film Editing at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for his work on the film Enemy and the award for Best Editing in a Comedy Series at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards for his work on the series Sensitive Skin, and was a Genie Award nominee for Best Film Editing at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011 for the film Trigger. His other credits include the films This Movie Is Broken, Oliver Sherman, Antiviral, James White and Into the Forest, and the television series Doctor*Ology, Michael: Every Day, Less Than Kind, Sensitive Skin and The OA. His debut short film as a director, Paseo, was released in 2018 and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list.

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Matthew Hannam

Movies

The Iron Claw
Editor
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
White Noise
Editor
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
Possessor Uncut
Title Designer
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
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Editor
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
The Nest
Editor
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Wildlife
Editor
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
Vox Lux
Editor
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, Celeste is a mother to a teenage daughter of her own and is struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
Paseo
Screenplay
Tagging along on her boyfriend’s work trip, a young woman rebels against her perceived role. In an attempt to feel something new, she gets lost in a dark, dreamlike and dangerous Barcelona.
Paseo
Story
Tagging along on her boyfriend’s work trip, a young woman rebels against her perceived role. In an attempt to feel something new, she gets lost in a dark, dreamlike and dangerous Barcelona.
Paseo
Director
Tagging along on her boyfriend’s work trip, a young woman rebels against her perceived role. In an attempt to feel something new, she gets lost in a dark, dreamlike and dangerous Barcelona.
Final Offer
Editor
A down-on-his-luck lawyer awakes to find he's been enlisted to negotiate on behalf of the human race.
Bird
Editor
When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.
It Comes at Night
Editor
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Swiss Army Man
Editor
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Into the Forest
Editor
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
James White
Editor
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
Never Happened
Editor
A pair of business travellers have an affair and decide it might be easiest to just forget about it.
Enemy
Editor
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Antiviral
Editor
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
The Entitled
Editor
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night, Paul and his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children and their money.
Oliver Sherman
Editor
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on - to a wife, two children, and a reliable job in a reliably safe and quiet rural town. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he'd left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.
Trigger
Editor
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
This Movie Is Broken
Editor
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
Loudly, Death Unties
Editor
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Additional Editor
A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father
Dive
Editor
Dive is an urban fairy tale about a self-destructive man who can't feel anything. From the moment he sets eyes on a mysterious young woman, something inside him stirs. Unbeknownst to him, she is part of the White Eye community, a marginalized group of hyper-sensitive beings inhabiting the same world as humans. When her true identity is revealed, his destructive nature reaches its peak as he contemplates a drastic escape from his melancholy.