Biography

Matthew Hashiguchi is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, a 2024 Wyncote PBS Fellow, and a Professor of Multimedia and Film Production at Georgia Southern University. His latest film, The Only Doctor, earned the 2025 Peabody Award for Public Service and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Reel South and internationally on Al Jazeera Witness. The film received a 2019 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, a 2021 American Stories Documentary Fund Award from Points North Institute and CNN Films, and premiered at the 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival.

His prior feature-length documentary, Good Luck Souo, was broadcast nationally on PBS World’s America ReFramed, received a 2016 Documentary Fund Award from the Center for Asian American Media and premiered at the 2016 Cleveland International Film Festival. In addition to traditional documentary film, he has created virtual reality films and web-based interactive media that has been presented at festivals throughout the world.
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