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Produce
We develop and produce documentaries, short films, podcasts, video series, and commissioned media from the earliest concept through final delivery.
METAMORA FILMS
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Stories that change hearts and minds.
Metamora Films is an independent social impact film production and media company creating documentaries, podcasts, and original media while connecting meaningful stories with educational and community audiences.
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Film
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Documentary
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Podcast
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Educational Media
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STORIES · PEOPLE · IMPACT
WHAT WE DO
Stories need more than a camera.
Metamora Films develops meaningful media from concept through completion — helping organizations, filmmakers, authors, and communities create and share stories with purpose.
Our social impact film production work can include story development, documentary production, podcast production, editing, educational distribution, screenings, and live discussion.
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Create
Metamora Originals explore human experience, criminal justice, social change, and stories that challenge how audiences see people and the world around them.
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Distribute
We connect selected films and educational media with classrooms, campuses, libraries, organizations, and community audiences through licensing and curated programming.
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Exhibit
We create opportunities for stories to be experienced together through screenings, moderated conversations, special programs, and the returning Metamora Film Festival.
OUR APPROACH
Some stories begin with an idea. Others begin with a person, a question, or an experience that needs to be understood. Bring us the story. We’ll build the production around it.
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SELECTED WORK
Stories made to be seen, heard, and discussed.
Across film, documentary, and podcasting, this work reflects more than a decade of independent storytelling focused on people, community, justice, forgiveness, and second chances.
Explore Metamora Films productions and selected work produced, directed, edited, or hosted by founder Matt Duhamel.
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Faces of Mass Incarceration
A Connecting 4 Justice project examining incarceration, families, lived experience, and the broader human consequences of the criminal justice system.
Produced & Edited by Matt Duhamel
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Not For Rent!
A documentary examining housing barriers, stigma, reintegration, and the challenges people can face while rebuilding their lives.
Produced by Matt Duhamel
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PODCAST / AUDIO SERIES
Solitary Nation
A podcast exploring criminal justice, incarceration, lived experience, and the people navigating systems that are often discussed without their voices being heard.
Hosted, Produced & Edited by Matt Duhamel
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The Forgiveness Journey
A feature documentary exploring forgiveness, accountability, healing, family, and the difficult process of rebuilding life.
Directed & Produced by Matt Duhamel
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Life Under the Horseshoe
A documentary portrait of a small Utah community and the people preserving its local history, storytelling, and live radio tradition.
Produced by Matt Duhamel
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Last Day With Lizzy
A character-driven narrative short from the early Metamora Films period and part of the company’s independent filmmaking history.
Produced by Matt Duhamel
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What Makes Me Tic?
An early documentary centered on lived experience, identity, and the realities that can exist behind assumptions about another person.
Produced by Matt Duhamel
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PRODUCTION SERVICES
From first idea to final cut.
Metamora Films works with organizations, filmmakers, authors, advocates, and mission-driven teams to develop and produce meaningful media from concept through completion.
Our social impact film production work has a particular focus on criminal justice, incarceration, reentry, stigma, second chances, and the human stories behind the system.
Documentary Production
Development and production for documentary films, short-form nonfiction, interview-driven projects, and mission-focused stories.
CORE SPECIALTY
Social Impact Film Production
Films and media created to inform, challenge assumptions, amplify lived experience, and help audiences engage more deeply with complex social issues.
Podcast Production
Interview-driven and narrative podcast development, including concept development, recording, editing, episode structure, and production support.
A DEFINING FOCUS
Criminal Justice Storytelling
Criminal justice has been a central part of Metamora Films’ work for years.
We develop documentaries, podcasts, interviews, and educational media around incarceration, reentry, housing barriers, stigma, families, lived experience, and the human consequences of the criminal legal system.
The goal is not to reduce people to statistics or labels. It is to create room for context, complexity, accountability, and meaningful conversation.
JUSTICE · REENTRY · LIVED EXPERIENCE
Story Development
Turning an idea, lived experience, research project, book, or organizational mission into a clear and producible media concept.
Editing & Post-Production
Editorial development and post-production for documentary, podcast, interview, educational, and independent media projects.
Short Films & Branded Stories
Purpose-driven short-form films and story pieces for organizations, campaigns, authors, community initiatives, and mission-led brands.
Educational Media & Licensing
Curated films, interviews, discussion materials, and media designed for universities, libraries, organizations, classrooms, and community programs.
Screenings & Discussion Programs
Film screenings can be paired with moderated conversations, filmmaker appearances, subject discussions, and educational programming that extends the story beyond the screen.
HAVE A STORY?
You do not need to arrive with a finished script, production team, or equipment package.
Bring us the story. We’ll build the production around it.
OUR STORY
More than a decade of independent storytelling.
Metamora Films has evolved through documentary filmmaking, narrative film, podcasting, educational media, screenings, festival programming, and independent distribution.
The format has changed over the years, but the central idea has remained remarkably consistent: stories can change how people understand one another.
2013
EARLY FILMMAKING
The work begins.
Early independent filmmaking established the foundation for Metamora Films, including What Makes Me Tic? and the beginning of a body of work centered on lived experience, identity, and human stories.
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2014
NARRATIVE FILM
Expanding beyond documentary.
Last Day With Lizzy expanded the early Metamora body of work into narrative filmmaking while continuing the emphasis on intimate, character-centered storytelling.
2015
DOCUMENTARY
Stories reach wider audiences.
Metamora Films continued with The Forgiveness Journey and Life Under the Horseshoe, expanding into feature documentary work, public screenings, and educational audiences.
2016–17
FILM · AUDIO · MEDIA
The work grows into a broader media platform.
Film production expanded alongside podcasting, media interviews, public screenings, festival activity, and increasingly direct engagement with issues surrounding criminal justice and reintegration.
Projects from this period include Solitary Nation, Not For Rent!, and Faces of Mass Incarceration.
2025
EDUCATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
A renewed focus on criminal justice media.
Metamora Films returned to a model centered on independent criminal-justice documentaries, educational outreach, community screenings, and connecting meaningful films with audiences beyond traditional entertainment channels.
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TODAY
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Production, media, education, and conversation.
Today, Metamora Films brings those experiences together through social impact film production, documentary, podcasting, criminal justice storytelling, educational media, distribution, screenings, and live discussion.
The mission continues: tell stories that change hearts and minds.
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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
Explore selected coverage, credits, screenings, interviews, and independent references documenting the work.
A FOUNDER'S PERSPECTIVE
A DEFINING THEME
Social stigma can outlast the formal justice system.
Metamora Films is deeply interested in what happens after a sentence ends — when public labels, distrust, isolation, and reduced support still continue shaping a person's life.
That is one reason this work sometimes feels like the path of a “lone filmmaker”: continuing to create even when collaboration, funding, stability, or community support are harder to find.
WHY METAMORA EXISTS
Some stories are difficult to understand until you've lived inside the stigma.
Metamora Films founder Matt Duhamel has firsthand experience with the criminal legal system — and with what can continue long after a sentence ends: social stigma, isolation, instability, and the struggle to rebuild.
Living with a conviction can shape nearly every part of life. It can affect housing, employment, financial stability, relationships, credibility, opportunity, and the ability to be seen as a full human being instead of a label. Even when a person is trying to move forward, stigma can continue to pull them backward.
Those realities shaped both Matt's life and Metamora Films. After several years of filmmaking, podcasting, screenings, and justice-focused media, the work became much quieter after 2017. For a long stretch, creative work often had to give way to the practical realities of rebuilding — moving, surviving, working, regaining stability, and navigating the social weight that can follow a conviction.
One of Metamora Films' strongest areas of focus is not only the justice system itself — but the social stigma that continues after it.
That stigma can become its own barrier. It can reduce trust, limit support, isolate people from opportunity, and make it harder to build sustainable work, partnerships, and community. At times, that reality has made the journey feel solitary — which is part of why Metamora remains committed to stories about reintegration, second chances, and the lives people are trying to rebuild beyond public labels.
Today, Metamora Films brings that lived experience into documentary, podcasting, educational media, screenings, and social impact storytelling that makes room for accountability, context, complexity, and humanity.
Social stigma can become its own sentence. Storytelling can challenge it.
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Stigma
Public labels can continue shaping a person's life long after the formal system has ended.
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Rebuilding
Housing, work, credibility, stability, and belonging are all part of the story after conviction.
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Humanity
People are more complex than a record, a headline, or the assumptions placed on them.
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Second Chances
Reintegration, accountability, and the possibility of growth deserve a meaningful place in the conversation.
THE WORK CONTINUES
Stories that challenge stigma and change hearts and minds.
Metamora Films brings lived experience together with filmmaking, documentary, podcasting, educational media, and public discussion to explore stories about justice, reintegration, stigma, and the people living beyond the labels placed on them.
METAMORA FILM FESTIVAL
A small festival. A meaningful room.
Metamora Films is developing a one-day micro film festival for the Portland / Vancouver, Washington metro in early summer 2027.
The returning Metamora Film Festival is being shaped as an intentionally intimate event — a place for independent film, social-impact media, lived experience, and real community conversation to come together in one room.
Programming is expected to include films and media exploring criminal justice, incarceration, reintegration, social stigma, second chances, and other stories that deserve deeper discussion beyond the screen.
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INDEPENDENT FILM
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SOCIAL IMPACT
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LIVED EXPERIENCE
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COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
START SOMETHING
Have a story worth telling?
Bring Metamora Films the story, idea, question, or experience you believe deserves to be understood.
We develop documentary, podcast, educational, and social impact film production projects — with a particular interest in criminal justice, stigma, reintegration, and second chances.
FROM IDEA TO PRODUCTION
Bring us the story. We'll build the production around it.
METAMORA FILMS
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SOCIAL IMPACT FILM PRODUCTION
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST