Olivier Matthon is a French-Canadian immigrant, commercial mushroom picker, and documentary filmmaker who graduated with a B.A. in Nonfiction Writing and Political Ecology from the Evergreen State College. He started documenting the lives of mushroom pickers in writing and photos in 2012. His short story, Under the Radar, originally published by Pioneers Press and in the anthology Writing American Culture, will be reprinted by Microcosm Publishing in 2026. His photographs have been published by High Country News Magazine and exhibited at the Museum of Ethnography of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

He is the director, cinematographer, and editor of the feature-length documentary film Up on the Mountain. The film was selected as the centerpiece of the 2022 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, won Best Northwest Documentary at the Tacoma Film Festival, an honorable mention at the Jean Rouch Film Festival in Paris, and was named one of the Best Documentaries of 2024 by Video Librarian. He co-wrote and edited the feature documentary film Michael and Damian (dir. Gabe Van Lelyveld, 2025), which premiered at the Port Townsend Film Festival.

contact: crawlinthemud@gmail.com