Mathew Zajac

Mathew Zajac

Perfil

Mathew Zajac

Películas

La crucifixión
Bishop Gornik
Cuando un sacerdote es encarcelado en Rumanía acusado de asesinato de una monja a la que realizaba un exorcismo, la periodista Nicole Rawlins investiga si el asesinato fue a una persona mentalmente enferma o, por el contrario, las acusaciones son falsas y simplemente perdió la batalla contra una presencia demoníaca. Una presencia que ahora podría estar experimentando ella misma.
Iona
Detective
Iona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes her tormented son, Bull, to a way of life she rejected when she left the island and sends a shockwave through the family she left behind.
Un lugar solitario para morir
Mr. Rakovic
Un grupo de cinco alpinistas se encuentra escalando las montañas de Escocia cuando, accidentalmente, dan con una niña que ha sido enterrada viva. Tras rescatarla, se dirigen al pueblo más cercano en busca de ayuda, pero los captores de la chica los están vigilando de cerca.
Valhalla Rising
Malkolm
En el siglo X, One-Eye, un enigmático y silencioso guerrero con una fuerza sobrehumana que ha permanecido esclavizado durante años, logra acabar con la vida de su captor, y huir junto a Are, el niño que le ha prestado su ayuda para escapar. En su huida ambos acabarán por enrolarse en un barco tripulado por vikingos, iniciando así un viaje que les transportará a una tierra desconocida, una tierra de autodescubrimiento, pero también de sangre, y dolor.
Low Winter Sun
Father Brannigan
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Man to Man
Hector Duncan
En 1870, el joven médico escocés Jamie Dodd y la aventurera Elena Van Den Ende viajan al corazón de la inexplorada África Ecuatorial en busca de los orígenes de la humanidad. Regresan a Edimburgo con dos pigmeos que, considerados como los 'eslabones perdidos' entre el hombre y el simio, serán expuestos en el zoo como animales. Jamie emprenderá entonces una cruzada para protegerlos, asegurando que su inteligencia y sensibilidad son idénticas a las de cualquier ser humano. Una postura que le causará multitud de problemas.
The Planman
John Baresci (as Matthew Zajac)
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
El Mayor Error de Einstein
Narrator (as Matthew Zajac)
Science Documentary hosted by Mathew Zajac and published by Channel 4 broadcasted as part of CH4 Equinox series in 2000 - English narration At the dawn of a new century, a new theory is being born. It threatens to demolish the foundations of 20th century physics. Its authors are two of the world's leading cosmologists. If they're right, Einstein was wrong. It all began when Andy Albrecht and Joao Magueijo met at a conference in America in 1996. This program began from Newtonian view of the universe then takes you through the General Relativity and the Flatness problem. This leads to the Horizon problem and its solution, the Inflation theory. However modern astronomy doesn't stop here, the Inflation theory has its flaw too, and what happened before the big bang? This can all be answered by changing one thing, the one thing no body dare to question until now.
Chasing the Deer
Alistair Campbell
The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.
Doombeach
Photographer
A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from a nearby nuclear plant is to blame. Their teacher is sympathetic, but has broken into her house, perhaps as a warning. Gavin is nearly killed after talking about the problem on TV, but gradually all is uncovered - with terrible consequences for Gavin.
The Chalk Mark
‘The Bad Man’
In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.
Mundo subterráneo
Underworlder #2
Un antiguo espía es sacado de su retiro a la fuerza por su antiguo jefe, para que busque a una chica desaparecida. La investigación parece algo de rutina, pero todo se complica con la aparición de una serie de mutantes que viven en el subsuelo, y que deben su estado a una misteriosa droga proporcionada por un científico loco.
Circling a Fox
Self
Circling a Fox takes Matthew Zajac’s multi-award-winning play about his father’s life and turns it into a genre-bending documentary film that challenges received notions of personal and national identity. It is a deeply personal story, taking us on a journey from war-torn Poland and Ukraine to the Highlands of Scotland and then back again. Blending documentary, theatre and poetic drama-reconstruction, Circling a Fox tells the story of Matthew's quest to seek the truth about his father’s past and his efforts to use theatre to reach out to a family he never knew he had.
Circling a Fox
Writer
Circling a Fox takes Matthew Zajac’s multi-award-winning play about his father’s life and turns it into a genre-bending documentary film that challenges received notions of personal and national identity. It is a deeply personal story, taking us on a journey from war-torn Poland and Ukraine to the Highlands of Scotland and then back again. Blending documentary, theatre and poetic drama-reconstruction, Circling a Fox tells the story of Matthew's quest to seek the truth about his father’s past and his efforts to use theatre to reach out to a family he never knew he had.