ABOUT US

We bring together a talented team of creatives with extensive backgrounds in film and television to provide our clients and collaborators with a full crew from pre-production through post. Our team’s experience spans every stage of the filmmaking process, ensuring a seamless and collaborative experience from the first creative conversation to the final delivered cut.

Beyond our core crew, we maintain strong connections with studios both nationally and internationally, giving our clients access to an even broader network of resources when a project calls for it. This extends to an array of specialized talent, including practical effects artists, who help bring ambitious creative visions to life with craftsmanship that digital effects alone can’t replicate.

Whether you’re looking for a lean, efficient crew or a full-scale production partner with global reach, Woodsbane Pictures has

Our Team

Matthew Kollar

Founder/Producer/Director

Hailing from the world of practical effects and monster building, Matthew uses his extensive knowledge of Horror and Fantasy in his filmmaking to create a unique visual blend of the beautiful and the grotesque. Kollar is driven to continue to bring Horror forward, making it socially relevant, exciting, and original. And of course, gory as hell.

Matthew began his career composing the original score for Bobcat Goldthwait's now cult hit "God Bless America," which premiered at TIFF and SXSW, earning solid reviews for the music and a collaboration with Goldthwait that would extend through his follow up feature film, "Willow Creek". His lifelong passion for Practical Effects led him to become a Visual Effects Producer at Encirco Studios, working with renowned studios like The Jim Henson Company, South Park Studios, and Universal Studios. While directing a regional theatre play, which featured MUCH MORE fake blood than any theatrical production should have a right to, Matthew was scouted and hired by Netflix to redefine English Dubbing for their international content.

Over the next three years, he collaborated with executives, filmmakers, actors, and show runners to ensure the creative vision in projects like "Money Heist," "Lupin," and the Academy Award-nominated films, "I Lost My Body" and "Society of the Snow" was accurately conveyed through the English voice acting. This resulted in huge financial success for Netflix, and laid the foundation for a new Post-Production workflow in Los Angeles. The work earned Kollar a New York Times featured article, and also a BAFTA voting membership for his contribution to International Film.

Matthew continues to create award nominated films and screenplays that are inspired by traditional horror and fantasy films, but seek to bring the genre and tropes forward with diverse and unique casting, and thoughtful, insightful storytelling. And also, a lot of fake blood. Did I mention that?

Founder/Producer/Writer

Kazimiera Szyperski

Kazimiera is an award-winning screenwriter whose work explores flawed women, dark humor, folklore, and the strange spaces where the intimate meets the uncanny.

Raised on the East Coast in a Polish American family, Kazimiera grew up surrounded by two influences that continue to shape her storytelling, traditional folklore and a distinctly dry sense of humor. Her scripts are character-driven, visually evocative, and grounded in emotional intimacy, even when the stories themselves venture somewhere deeply strange.

Kazimiera's work has received recognition from film festivals, screenwriting competitions, and industry programs. She was a finalist at FilmQuest for Drain (2025) and a semifinalist at the Rhode Island International Film Festival for Crimson Canvas (2024). She was also a Second Rounder in the Launch Pad Pilot Competition (2022), has earned multiple placements on the Coverfly Red List for top-ranked scripts, and has received finalist and semifinalist recognition from Script Pipeline, ScreenCraft, and other competitions. She was also an invited filmmaker for Monday on Main Street at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Her short screenplay Rites/Rights was handpicked by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory and received award recognition.

Her feature screenplay Crimson Canvas is currently in development and is listed on IMDb, with additional projects in development for film and television. Kazimiera earned a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Kent State University, where she also worked with the university's in-house production company as a Public Relations and Human Resources representative. That early experience provided hands-on exposure to media production, communications, team management, and industry operations, all of which continue to inform her work as a writer and storyteller.

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