Matthew Helderman
- Production
- July 25, 1987
Biography
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" directed by Emmy winner Joe Berlinger. In 2013, he co-founded BondIt Media Capital and has led BondIt in the deployment of over $250M of capital in over 400+ film, television, and media opportunities, while raising $30M of equity and debt for a partial sale to public traded Accord Financial (TSX: ACD) in addition to expanding the company's credit facility to $75M in 2020 with Texas based hedge fund Revere Capital. BondIt projects include Oscar nominated Loving Vincent, the Roland Emerich directed war epic Midway, the Indie Spirit winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, and projects Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Nicolas Cage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Kevin James, Morgan Freeman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson resulting in over $500M+ of worldwide box office performances. Helderman also co-managed the acquisition of 30-year-old entertainment payroll firm, ABS Payroll in 2017 and today serves as an Executive Director, Partner, and Board Member having overseen the sale of the business to largest PEO provider in the United States, Vensure Employer Services. Helderman graduated from Lake Forest College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, has been a featured TED speaker, profiled in the New York Times, and is a member of YPO.
Known for
Filmography
- Air Bud Returns · Co-Executive Producer
- Once Upon a Time in Jersey · Executive producer
- Christmas at the Kringles · Executive producer
- Dead Howling · Executive producer
- The Night Driver · Executive producer
- The Swallow · Executive producer
- The Florist · Executive producer
- The Cycle · Executive producer
- Don't Let Them Out · Executive producer
- Watchful Eyes · Executive producer
- Lucky Strike · Executive producer
- Driver's Ed · Executive producer
- PH-1 · Executive producer
- Pops · Executive producer
- This Is Not a Test · Executive producer
- Facade · Executive producer
- Protector · Producer
- Tube-E Movie · Executive producer
- Vanished · Co-producer
- Blue Skies on Mars · Executive producer
- Moments of Youth · Executive producer
- Night Patrol · Executive producer
- Giant · Executive producer
- Darkness of Man · Executive producer
- Silent Night, Deadly Night · Executive producer
- Hunting Season · Executive producer
- The Patient · Executive producer
- Jujji · Executive producer
- The Great Departure · Executive producer
- Thieves Highway · Executive producer
- Exit Protocol · Executive producer
- Intruder · Executive producer
- Water’s Edge · Executive producer
- Shakti · Executive producer
- Killing Faith · Executive producer
- The Installation · Executive producer
- The Madness of David Judge · Executive producer
- No Country for Old People · Executive producer
- Off the Grid · Executive producer
- Fall Is a Good Time to Die · Executive producer
- Ocean's View · Executive producer
- Diablo · Executive producer
- Queendom Come · Executive producer
- Guns Up · Executive producer
- Lilly · Executive producer
- Final Recovery · Executive producer
- The Ritual · Executive producer
- Fog of War · Executive producer
- Beggarman · Executive producer
- Appalachian Dog · Executive producer
- Bob Trevino Likes It · Executive producer
- Locked · Executive producer
- Barren · Executive producer
- The Book of Raven · Executive producer
- Mind. Body. Money. · Executive producer
- Alarum · Executive producer
- Dig Me No Grave · Executive producer
- The Message · Executive producer
- White Crow · Executive producer
- Rust · Executive producer
- Dil Rakh: Gloves of Kin · Executive producer
- Luto · Executive producer
- Armor · Executive producer
- Quantum Suicide · Executive producer
- Terrifier 3 · Executive producer
- Succubus · Executive producer
- The Fall · Executive producer
- Woman of the Hour · Executive producer
- Bad Things · Executive producer
- Tie Die · Executive producer
- Midas Man · Co-Executive Producer
- The Girl in the Pool · Executive producer
- Dandelion · Executive producer
- Finger Laced Crown · Executive producer
- Agent Recon · Executive producer
- Cash Out · Executive producer
- Bau, Artist at War · Executive producer
- Blood for Dust · Executive producer
- Damaged · Executive producer
- Parachute · Executive producer