Oaktown Island Productions is a boutique production company run by Long Island-born Matt Morillo, and Oakland-native Heather Brawley.
A multi award-winning filmmaker and playwright, Matt Morillo has been a presence on the independent film/theater scene for two decades. After helming award-winning short films GOOD TIDINGS and MAID OF HONOR, he moved into theater and wrote the international cult hit comedy ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW RISE JEANS WITH HIGH CLASS ISSUES (US, Australia, UK), and followed that up with another international cult hit comedy, the award winning, ALL ABOARD THE MARRIAGE HEARSE (US, UK, Mexico, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania and soon to be Kenya). He managed to top that with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival award winner THE INVENTOR AND THE ESCORT. In 2018 he showed his versatility when he panned the acclaimed, award winning drama KATY AND JENNIFER in the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In 2019 he wrote yet another drama in the Hollywood Fringe, the acclaimed and multi-nominated IF WE RUN. He has since returned to his film roots with a short film in pre-production, a web-series in post-production, and several screenplays in development. He has also written a pilot based on his play AMERICAN SOLDIERS. Matt also does stand up comedy and has performed at the legendary Improv in Hollywood and is a regularly featured in the Best of Deez Nuts showcases at The Comedy Store.
An Oakland native Heather Brawley received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Redlands. After graduating she secured an internship and then job at Archstone Distribution (World-Wide Sales and Distribution Company). Over her past twelve years at Archstone she has worked in a variety of roles within Sales, Acquisitions, and Delivery, working on hundreds of films. After taking a short-term producing program at the New York Film Academy, Ms. Brawley realized her love for Producing and began gaining experience in production, serving a variety of on-set roles such as Production Coordinator and Line Producer. Over the past two years she has produced several short films and three web-series which have garnered over 40 festival selections and several wins, and she has also been working with the production team at Archstone, where she is currently VP of Marketing & Operations. Having a background in distribution while working in production has given Ms. Brawley a unique perspective of filmmaking and versatile set of skills as a Producer, a knowledge which she implements from development to delivery.Ms. Brawley also runs a company in the music accessory industry called Instrument Care Accessories.