Matthew O'Neill

Matthew O'Neill has been working with DCTV in one way or another since he came to paint the walls in 1997 during a college holiday break!

He's traded in his paint can for a video camera and has been producing and directing at DCTV since 2001 working on documentaries for HBO, PBS, the Discovery Channels and others.

For the 2006 documentary he produced and directed with Jon Alpert for HBO - Baghdad ER, he won a Columbia DuPont Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Nonfiction Programs - including "Best Directing" and "Best Cinematography." Other programs he has produced and directed include Bolivia: Coca and the Congressman, To Have and Have Not: The Changing Face of China and Turkey's Tigers for the PBS series Wide Angle; Siberian Adoption Story for the Discovery Health Channel and Venezuela: Revolution in Progress for the Discovery Times Channel.

His work closer to home has been awarded five New York Emmy Awards including prizes for "Best Political Journalism" and "Best Societal Concerns Program." His 2002 PBS special about the New York Gubernatorial race, Speak Up New York! won a local Emmy and a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society for Professional Journalists for Public Service Television Journalism.

Matthew grew up on Long Island and graduated from Yale University.