As well as managing his slate of projects at various stages of development Matthieu de Braconier Exec produces Cinema Extreme, the premiere short film scheme funded by the UK Film Council, Film4 and Skillset. The specificity of Cinema Extreme's approach is that it offers a full training and development process from script to screen and supports participants in the transition from shorts to features. Productions have won over fifty awards between them including the International Jury Prize in Sundance for Simon Ellis's SOFT and the Oscar for Best Short Film for Andrea Arnold's WASP.

Before working at The Bureau Matthieu studied creative writing at the Universite Europeenne d'Ecriture (1994-1995, Belgium), worked as a writer, manager, coordinator and mediator on L'ARCHE DU DESTIN (an international social and artistic project performed at the Cirque Royal Theatre in Brussels & Sarajevo, May 1996) and went on to study Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1996 - 2001, Belgium).

In October 2001 Matthieu joined The Bureau as PA to producer Bertrand Faivre (RATCATCHER, THE WARRIOR, JULIA, FAREWELL). His duties included handling the UK release and follow up of award winning THE WARRIOR as well as managing CINEMA EXTREME and running surprisingly successful EXTREME CINEMA EVENTS (Curzon Soho, funded by the UK Film Council). As a Development Exec. Matthieu's responsibilities soon grew to encompass development, script editing, hunting & nurturing talent.