Matthew Podolsky

Matthew Podolsky

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Documentary producer and director. Co-founder of the Wild Lens Collective, a non-profit production company focused on environmental storytelling. Known for co-directing Sea of Shadows and producing the award-winning short films, Hellbent and Bluebird Man.

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Hellbent 2023

In a small rural town in Pennsylvania, the refuge of a rare salamander and the only source of clean drinking water for 700 people is threatened by the installation of a fracking waste injection well, prompting community members to band together to fight for the rights of their people and nature.
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The Invisible Mammal 2025

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.