- Matthew Papadopoulos is an Australian screenwriter and member of the Australian Writers' Guild.
His first spec feature screenplay - the screwball comedy The Real Thing (Romantic Comedy/Sci-Fi/Coming-of-Age) - has won and placed in numerous international awards from June 2019:
46 Winner, 39 Finalist, 24 Semi-Finalist, 15 Quarter-Finalist, 2 Other, 14 Official Selection.
At the New Media Film Festival (2020), Chelsea Lo Pinto (Director of HBO Program Strategy & Planning) stated that Best Script winner The Real Thing "exemplifies these qualities [innovation and vitality] and, most importantly, adds something to the genre that is unexpected and new".
The Real Thing is on The Red List - Comedy Genre/Format on Coverfly (May 2022). The screenplay rates in the Top 1% of discoverable projects on Coverfly from 30 awards accrued from curated contests on the site. Additional information: Top 1% of all 81,362 projects; Top 1% of 18,869 Comedy projects.
- IMDb mini biography by: Matthew Papadopoulos
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