Matt Greenfield, ADV FILMS

As the co-founder and Senior Vice President ADV Films, the largest distributor of anime in North America, Matt Greenfield is easily one of the busiest men in anime today.  He also considers himself one of the luckiest.  Growing up on a steady diet of science fiction novels, giant monster movies and animated series like Astroboy and Speed Racer, he has somehow managed to end up with a career that has never lost touch with his youthful interests.  After majoring in theater and working for four years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he provided mission support for both the first three Space Shuttle missions and the Voyager Jupiter flyby, he moved to Texas in 1982 where he started writing professionally and became heavily involved with the embryonic stages of a new kind of fandom focused around animation from Japan.  Several attempts to interest outside production companies in anime led to the founding of ADVision in 1992, where he has since racked up over a thousand production credits as producer, writer and/or director.  In between his executive duties as SVP, he has helmed the English language versions of such anime classics as CHRONO CRUSADE, NOIR, EXCEL SAGA, GANTZ, RAHXEPHON, PRINCESS NINE, NADESICO, BUBBLEGUM CRISIS TOKYO 2040, GUNSMITH CATS, BATTLE ANGEL, SPRIGGAN, MACROSS and NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, as well as the live action GAMERA-GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE.  He has also written numerous comic books and magazine articles and has over 300 credits as a voice actor (mostly under the name Brian Granveldt.)  Now married to voice actress Tiffany Grant, his current projects include directing the English language version of KURAU-PHANTOM MEMORY, writing and producing an original animated series based on the David Weber novel  MUTINEERS’ MOON, and contributing to the production of the live action EVANGELION feature film.