About us
A specialist film fund, built from the producer’s chair up.
MatchCut exists to connect two worlds that have rarely sat comfortably at the same table: institutional capital, and the producers and filmmakers building ambitious work.
Founding rationale
The gap we exist to close.
For decades, the economics of Australian screen finance have been pieced together one deal at a time — presales, tax credits, grants, a handful of generous equity cheques, and the producer’s own balance sheet. Meanwhile, the pools of capital best suited to long-duration, alternative-return investments — superannuation funds, family offices, wholesale unit trusts — have been almost entirely absent from the slate.
The absence was structural, not philosophical. Allocators want the things that institutional credit provides: waterfalls that hold, reporting that survives audit, risk frameworks that can be underwritten line by line. Traditional film finance has rarely been packaged that way. And film teams, reasonably, have been wary of capital that treats a creative project like a commodity.
MatchCut sits in that gap. We originate, structure and finance film projects with a credit memo on every deal and a producer’s judgement behind every position. We are capital-structure agnostic within a single investment committee — equity where equity belongs, senior debt where it earns its place, distribution-linked structures where they unlock the film.
Capital should back the film — not dictate it. Our job is to bring the discipline of institutional credit without losing the judgement of a producer.
MatchCut founding principle
Founder portrait — Sydney, 2025
On building MatchCut
Films are underwritten like credit. And shot like films.
The team that built MatchCut came out of institutional credit and out of production. Those two disciplines rarely sit in the same room. When they do — with the authority to decide together — the conversation moves faster, the deals close cleaner, and the films get the support they need to travel.
We built MatchCut to keep those two disciplines in one room.
Milestones
Where we’ve been. Where we’re going.
2024
Founded in Sydney
MatchCut is incorporated by a team drawn from institutional credit, line production, and sales. The thesis: close the gap between wholesale capital and ambitious cinema.
2025
First wholesale vehicle structured
We establish the trust, custody and reporting scaffolding required for allocator-grade capital — independent responsible entity, Big Four audit, segregated custody.
2026
MatchCut Slate Finance Fund opens
Our flagship slate programme opens to wholesale clients, combining equity, senior debt and distribution-linked structures under a single investment committee.
Philosophy
Three principles we will not trade away.
Credit first, creative always.
Every deal passes a written credit memo reviewed by the investment committee. And every memo still has to answer a second question: is this a film worth making?
No project is worth breaking the waterfall.
Recoupment positions, cross-collateral, intercreditor terms — documented before first draw. We would rather lose a deal than inherit a messy capital stack.
Distribution is part of the deal, not an afterthought.
We work from the release date backwards. Sales, theatrical and streaming conversations happen alongside the credit memo, not after the film is delivered.
The team
Meet the people behind the mandate.
Institutional credit, production, sales and distribution — under one investment committee.