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Matthew Helderman

Born July 25, 1987 (age 39)

Matthew Helderman is the CEO and co-founder of BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8. Helderman founded Buffalo 8 in 2010, while an undergrad student at Lake Forest College. Buffalo 8 has since premiered projects at Sundance, SXSW, and Berlin, as well as producing the Netflix original film "Rodney King" directed by Spike Lee and the global Netflix hit "Conversations With a Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer" dir…

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Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike · 2026

A wounded American soldier fights to survive behind enemy lines during WWII's Battle of the Bulge against the Germans, relying on his instinct, spy craft and a hand-radio to evade capture and find his way back to his unit.

Hunting Season

Hunting Season · 2025

MovieActionDrama

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

Protector

Protector · 2026

MovieActionThriller

Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.

Terrifier 3

Terrifier 3 · 2024

Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Woman of the Hour

Woman of the Hour · 2024

Woman of the Hour

MovieCrimeDrama

An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."

Succubus

Succubus · 2024

MovieHorrorThriller

A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Exit Protocol

Exit Protocol · 2025

MovieActionThriller

An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.

Locked

MovieHorrorThriller

When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

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Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike · 2026

A wounded American soldier fights to survive behind enemy lines during WWII's Battle of the Bulge against the Germans, relying on his instinct, spy craft and a hand-radio to evade capture and find his way back to his unit.

Executive Producer

Hunting Season

Hunting Season · 2025

MovieActionDrama

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

Executive Producer

Protector

Protector · 2026

MovieActionThriller

Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.

Executive Producer

Terrifier 3

Terrifier 3 · 2024

Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Executive Producer

Woman of the Hour

Woman of the Hour · 2024

Woman of the Hour

MovieCrimeDrama

An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."

Executive Producer

Succubus

Succubus · 2024

MovieHorrorThriller

A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Executive Producer

Exit Protocol

Exit Protocol · 2025

MovieActionThriller

An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.

Executive Producer

Locked

MovieHorrorThriller

When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

Executive Producer

Off the Grid

Off the Grid · 2025

MovieActionThriller

After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their biggest mistake of all – they weaponize the man they are trying to catch.

Executive Producer

The Ritual

The Ritual · 2025

MovieHorrorDrama

Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.

Executive Producer

This Is Not a Test

This Is Not a Test · 2026

This Is Not a Test

MovieThrillerHorror

Sloane and four classmates take cover in Cortege High to escape a world plagued by the infected. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of those who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands.

Executive Producer

Thieves Highway

Thieves Highway · 2025

Thieves Highway

MovieCrimeThriller

After discovering a plot to haul stolen cattle in the middle of nowhere, a desperate and isolated lawman becomes the only thing standing between a group of dangerous rustlers and a clear run to the border.

Executive Producer

Armor

MovieActionCrime

Armored truck security guard James Brody is working with his son Casey transporting millions of dollars between banks when a team of thieves led by Rook orchestrate a takeover of their truck to seize the riches. Following a violent car chase, Rook soon has the armored truck surrounded and James and Casey find themselves cornered onto a decrepit bridge.

Executive Producer

Alarum

MovieActionCrime

Two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe and Lara are agents living off the grid whose quiet retreat at a winter resort is blown to shreds when members of the old guard suspect the two may have joined an elite team of rogue spies, known as Alarum.

Executive Producer

Diablo

MovieActionThriller

Ex-con Kris Chaney seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl's mother. When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and a psychotic killer to exact his revenge, Kris relies on everything he's ever learned to stay alive and keep his word.

Executive Producer

Killing Faith

Killing Faith · 2025

MovieThrillerWestern

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.

Executive Producer

The Fallout

The Fallout · 2021

In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.

Executive Producer

Driver's Ed

Driver's Ed · 2025

A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.

Executive Producer

Night Patrol

Night Patrol · 2026

MovieHorrorMystery

An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

Executive Producer

Apex

MovieActionThriller

Ex-cop Thomas Malone is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. He is offered a chance at freedom if he can survive a deadly game of Apex, in which six hunters pay for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. He accepts, and once he arrives, all hell breaks loose.

Executive Producer

Midnight in the Switchgrass

Midnight in the Switchgrass · 2021

Midnight in the Switchgrass

MovieCrimeMystery

FBI Agent Karl Helter and his partner Rebecca Lombardo are very close to busting a sex-trafficking ring. When they realize their investigation has crossed the path of a brutal serial killer, they team up with a FDLE agent to put an end to the infamous 'Truck Stop Killer'.

Executive Producer

Dual

MovieScience FictionComedy

A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.

Executive Producer

Damaged

Damaged · 2024

MovieActionDrama

A Chicago detective travels to Scotland after an emerging serial killer’s crimes match those that he investigated five years earlier, one of which was the crime scene of his murdered girlfriend.

Executive Producer

Darkness of Man

Darkness of Man · 2025

Darkness of Man

MovieActionCrime

Russell Hatch, an Interpol operative who takes on the role of father figure to Jayden, the son of an informant killed in a routine raid gone wrong. Years later, Hatch finds himself protecting Jayden and his grandfather from a group of merciless gangs in an all-out turf war, stopping at nothing to protect Jayden and fight anyone getting in his way.

Executive Producer

Vanished

Vanished · 2026

SeriesDramaMystery

When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom aboard a train to the south of France, Alice is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.

Co-Producer

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes · 2022

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

SeriesDocumentaryCrime

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Executive Producer

Terror Lake Drive

Terror Lake Drive · 2020

Terror Lake Drive

SeriesDramaMystery

A single mother tries to dodge her troubled past by relocating to another city with her defiant teenager, only to discover there are forces that cannot be outrun.

Executive Producer

Underdeveloped

Underdeveloped · 2023

Mockumentary about a group of failed and inexperienced producers forced to work together at a production company.

Executive Producer

Queendom Come

Queendom Come · 2025

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

Queendom is a cross-world/high fantasy series about a young, black woman, Sariya, who is struggling to build the typical American dream life when she soon discovers that she is anything but typical.

Executive Producer

Bronx SIU

Bronx SIU · 2018

An elite task force based out of The Bronx handles all of New York City’s most demanding and difficult cases. Secrets, lies and double lives intertwine as the story of Bronx SIU unfolds.

Executive Producer

The Book of Raven

The Book of Raven · 2025

The Book of Raven

SeriesCrimeDrama

A hard working young woman is brutally attacked after she leaves work. During the attack, she loses her memory & is hospitalized. Once she’s released from the hospital, she starts seeking revenge on the predators in the neighborhood.

Executive Producer

No Country for Old People

No Country for Old People · 2025

No Country for Old People

A filmmaker chronicles her mother’s last 6 months in a 5-star nursing home exposing the systemic, deadly, profit-over-people business model. No Country For Old People is a scorching documentary posed to set the long term care industry, policy makers, and the country ablaze. Shining a much-needed light on what is truly a national human emergency, it is a clarion call for serious change.

Executive Producer

Mind. Body. Money.

Mind. Body. Money. · 2025

Mind. Body. Money.

Mind. Body. Money. follows superstar financial advisor, Eszylfie Taylor, as he navigates the challenges of providing his clientele of top athletes, celebrities, and Fortune 500 companies with world class financial services.

Executive Producer