In 2009, Matador Pictures celebrates 10 years as one of the UK’s  leading independent feature film production and financing companies with a distinguished track record of distinctive and high quality feature films earning both commercial and critical success. Films it has produced, co-produced or co-financed have achieved over 100 awards, nominations and festival selections and all have found international distribution.

Credits include the widely acclaimed TEN MINUTES OLDER project, a cycle of films directed by Aki Kaurismaki, Victor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Spike Lee, Chen Kaige, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jiri Menzel, Istvan Szabo, Claire Denis, Volker Schlondorff, Michael Radford and Jean-Luc Godard (Official Selections of the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals); Ken Loach's film AE FOND KISS (winner of two awards at the Berlin Film Festival and nominated for The Golden Bear) and THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (winner of the Palme D'Or and numerous other awards); the action horror film OUTPOST directed by Steve Barker; BROKEN LINES with Paul Bettany;  Kenny Glenaan’s SUMMER starring Robert Carlyle  (Best Actor at  the Edinburgh International Film Festival,); CLIVE BARKER’S BOOK OF BLOOD with Jonas Armstrong and Sophie Ward;  PRINCESS KAIULANI starring Q’Orianka Kilcher; HEARTLESS with Jim Sturgess and Timothy Spall; DREAD starring Jackson Rathbone and Shaun Evans based on the short story written by Clive Barker; and Jonathan Lynn’s WILD TARGET  starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Everett and Rupert Grint.