Screenwriters Kirsten Smith & Karen McCullah (Legally Blonde) 
Director Jeremy Podeswa (Game of Thrones) 
Director Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein) 
Director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) 
Actor Morgan Freeman (Glory) 
Editor Evan Schiff (Frankenstein) 
Actress Christina Chong (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) 
Director Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague) 
Composer Sherri Chung (Found) 
Editors – Myron Kerstein (Wicked), Shelly Wetserman (Only Murders in the Building), Tatiana S. Riegel (I, Tonya), Maryann Brandon (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) 
Actress Naomi Scott (The Eternal Return) 
Screenwriter Steven Rogers (Everything ‘s Going to be Great) 
Actress Morfydd Clark – Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) 
Make-Up Artist Ve Neill (Beetlejuice) 
Writer/Director Jordan Peele (Get Out) 
Actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, and Writer David Mandel (VEEP)
Matt Ryan is the creator/host of Moderated by Matt. Studios, Guilds, Publicists, and Talent turn to Matt to moderate Film & TV events that include Academy & Guild Q&As, premieres, film festival panels, and career retrospectives & anniversaries events. Moderated by Matt Q&As are extensively researched, insightful & entertaining with a focus on the craft and artistry of screenwriters, directors, actors, editors, producers, cinematographers, composers, costume designers, production designers and artists from departments of sound, make-up, animation and VFX. Moderated by Matt’s audience includes in-person Academy & Guild Members as well as on YouTube (4.87 million online views).
Moderated by Matt offers an Interviewing and Production class that teaches broadcast journalism (researching, writing and interviewing filmmakers), multi-camera television production (producing, camera operation, and postproduction editing), field production & interviewing (roundtables, red carpet & press line interviews) and planning Screening/QA public events. The Student produced videos of Q&As are utilized by studios, talent and publicists for promotion. Working professionals and current Students are welcome to apply.
Moderated by Matt is a full-service operation that works with studios on events, securing talent, venue rentals and video production as well as providing studios with in-person and online audiences of Academy & Guild members.
Testimonials
Writer/Director/Actor/Rapper Logic (Paradise Records )
“Our Q&A was my favorite of the ones I did for The Edge of Seventeen— you asked such thoughtful questions that night. And that’s so generous” – Writer/Director Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
“What a pleasure and wonderful time it was to participate in your great chat. You are a great, great interviewer and I loved all of your questions and especially that you are warm and inviting.” – Director Fred Toye (Westworld)
“Thank You, Matt. Of all the interviews I have ever done, your questions were the most directorial/storytelling perceptive I have ever been asked. The evening was a complete pleasure revisiting that wonderful work that was done on Lost.” – Director Jack Bender (Lost)
“Thank you, Matthew, for such a great event last night. it was such a pleasure to see the film again and to meet you. I had a blast!” – Screenwriter Alan Ball (American Beauty)
“It was such an incredible night. Thank you so much for organizing it all and for taking such good care of us. We were, and are, thrilled, and have been raving about the experience to all our friends and colleagues.”” – Screenwriter Kristen Smith (Legally Blonde)