People First
We take time to understand the people, organizations, and ideas behind each production.
About Metamora Films
Metamora Films is a video and film production company serving Portland, Vancouver, WA, Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest. We create professional videos for businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions, and creative organizations, alongside our award-winning documentary and narrative films.
Our approach combines cinematic production with authentic storytelling. Whether we're helping an organization share its message or developing an independent film, we believe every project deserves creativity, thoughtful filmmaking, and a genuine connection to its subject.
Human-Centered Storytelling.
Original films · Creative production · Human stories
The Metamora Approach
Our work begins with understanding the people, ideas, and experiences behind every production.
With more than 13 years of experience in filmmaking and production, Metamora Films brings a thoughtful, cinematic approach to professional videos and independent films alike. We collaborate with businesses, nonprofits, educators, production companies, and creative professionals to shape stories for the audiences they want to reach.
We don't believe every project should look or feel the same. Some stories call for intimate interviews and natural moments. Others benefit from carefully planned cinematography, creative direction, or a more visually driven approach. We find the right approach for the story, rather than forcing the story into a formula.
We take time to understand the people, organizations, and ideas behind each production.
Thoughtful camera work, sound, and editing help bring each project's distinct character to the screen.
From brand videos to original films, our work can inform, connect, entertain, inspire, or invite a new perspective.
Human-Centered Storytelling is more than a tagline. It's how we approach the work.
Founder & Filmmaker
Filmmaker, producer, and storyteller whose experience spans documentary and narrative film, television and radio, and commissioned video production.
Matt Duhamel founded Metamora Films with a belief that compelling stories start with people. Drawing on a background in television, radio, and filmmaking, he has spent more than 13 years developing and producing work that brings personal experiences and creative ideas to the screen.
His independent film work includes documentaries exploring forgiveness, identity, incarceration, housing barriers, and second chances, as well as narrative projects such as the award-winning short Last Day With Lizzy. These projects helped shape a filmmaking approach built on curiosity, attention to detail, and respect for the people at the center of a story.
A belief behind the work People are more than one chapter of their lives.
Matt's perspective is also informed by lived experience, including incarceration and the challenges of rebuilding afterward. Rather than separating that history from his filmmaking, he sees it as one part of what deepens his understanding of identity, empathy, and the many ways people are perceived.
Today, he brings that perspective to both original documentary and narrative films and professional video productions for businesses, nonprofits, and creative organizations. Based in the Portland–Vancouver area, Metamora Films also serves clients and collaborators in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest.
Selected Recognition
Selected honors, nominations, and official festival selections from Metamora Films' independent work. Awards and nominations are identified separately from festival selections.
Selected historical recognition from Metamora Films' archive.
Rooted in the Pacific Northwest
About Metamora Films is also a story about place. From the creative communities of Portland and Vancouver, WA, to the film and media scene in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest is an inspiring home for independent filmmaking and professional video production.
The Pacific Northwest brings together independent filmmakers, commercial video crews, artists, nonprofits, and businesses with stories to share. Urban neighborhoods, wooded landscapes, coastlines, and mountains offer an extraordinary range of settings for documentary, narrative, and brand filmmaking.
Metamora Films brings a human-centered approach to this environment, creating original films while collaborating on professional video productions that serve organizations and creative teams across the region.