Matia Karrell has a long and extensive career in film and television. She wrote, directed, and produced the Academy Award Nominated short film, Cadillac Dreams.  Her feature film, Behind The Red Door, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kyra Sedgwick, and Stockard Channing, took first prize for Best Feature Film Screenplay at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and was a finalist in the PEN Center USA Literary Awards. Karrell also collaborated as a writer/producer with Mike Newell at Dogstar Films on developing The Story of V.  Recently she was Production Supervisor on the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated Laura Dern HBO film The Tale. Karrell's television credits include The West Wing, and Army Wives.
 
Karrell is a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the prestigious John Wells Directing Fellowship, the American Film Institute (AFI)  Directing Workshop for Women Fellowship and the Disney/ABC Directing Fellowship. She is a Graduate Film Instructor at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Currently, she is in production on her WWII feature-length documentary, Coming Home.