Halflife Films was founded by award winning director & producer Matt Harlock. 

Matt’s latest project Deep Clean is a sci-fi comedy horror short co-created with comic artist Krent Able. Starring Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones) it has amassed 1.3M views online, played & won awards at numerous festivals (Frightfest, Aesthetica, Screamfest LA & London Short Film Festival) and is currently being developed as a TV series.

Matt's first feature film American The Bill Hicks Story was the 2nd most successful documentary released in UK cinemas in 2010, played over 40 international festivals, was Grierson-nominated and won several Best Documentary awards (Dallas, Little Rock, Downtown LA, Biografilm Bologna). It was released theatrically in 35 US cities and broke records for its US VOD partner Gravitas. It was a top10 iTunes UK All-Time Bestsellers Docs chart and no.4 on Rotten Tomatoes Best Films of 2011.

Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll a hybrid doc that turns into a horror film was Matt's first collaboration with Krent. It premiered online on VICE.com June 2017, and has played London SFF, Dublin International, LOCO, won awards from Shooting People's Film of the Month and Best Film at Sochi.    

Matt previous short films have been shown on VICE, Channel 4, Film4, HBO and Sky, winning awards from Manhattan SFF, TCM & Film London and the National 48 Hour Film Challenge.

Matt has hosted panels at SXSW, Raindance and Comic Con, and given masterclasses about VOD, split rights distribution, presenting projects and crowdfunding to audiences at SheffDocFest, SPAA Melbourne, Raindance, Directors UK, Creative England, Film London & LOCO. He is a visiting lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University MA Film course and London College of Communication. 

Matt has been appeared on BBC 6 Music (3 times), Sirius FM, Kermode & Mayo 5 Live (Film of the Week), Anthony & Opie, PBS & many more. He was a Berlinale Talent in 2014 and is the founder of No Direction Home, the Soho director’s community www.nodirectionhome.com