Matthew Hashiguchi is a Peabody Award–winning documentary filmmaker, a 2024 Wyncote PBS Fellow, and a Professor of Multimedia and Film Production at Georgia Southern University. His latest film, The Only Doctor, earned the 2025 Peabody Award for Public Service and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Reel South and internationally on Al Jazeera Witness. The film was also supported by the 2019 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund and the 2021 American Stories Documentary Fund from Points North Institute and CNN Films. It premiered at the 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival.

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He lives in Savannah, Georgia, but will always call Cleveland, Ohio, his home.