Known for Production
Neil Mathieson, president and founder of Arbitrage Pictures, is a Canadian/American producer and service provider. Recent credits include Executive Producer on The Apprentice, directed by Ali Abbasi, and Matt & Mara, directed by Kazik Radwanski.
Birthplace
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filmography
22 films
showing 9 of 10 films


The Liberation
2026 · 2h 4m · US
Rita is entranced by the mesmeric Leader and renounces her family to embrace the world of the enigmatic Harmonia commune. Her daughters Ella and Jo put everything on the line to infiltrate the cult and bring their mother home. Yet, once immersed in the commune, they find themselves inexorably drawn into the Leader’s labyrinthine web of psycho-spiritual manipulation.


I, Object
2026 · 1h 32m · CA
10-year-old Tom, grieving the loss of his father and unable to relate to the people in his life, takes refuge in the everyday objects around him. Pop can lids, suitcases and untold numbers of everyday objects reveal their true faces and speak to him, helping him on his healing journey.


Endless Cookie
2025 · 1h 37m · CA
Exploring the complex bond between two half brothers — one Indigenous, one white — traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa to bustling 1980s Toronto.


The Apprentice
2024 · 2h 2m · US
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.


Inedia
2024 · 1h 47m · CA
After a series of mysterious and debilitating allergic reactions to food, a young woman joins a radical community of people who claim to be nourished by light.


Matt and Mara
2024 · 1h 20m · CA
Mara is a young creative writing professor struggling with problems in her marriage to an experimental musician. One day, she runs into Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, when he wanders onto her university campus. Bonded by their shared interests, the two gradually become closer. When Mara’s husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive her to an out-of-town conference, Matt accompanies Mara on the trip instead. Along the way, the tension surrounding their undefined relationship slowly grows.


Close to You
2024 · 1h 39m · CA
A trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself.


The Friendship Game
2022 · 1h 27m · CA
A group of teens in a small town come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other with increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go.


So Much Tenderness
2022 · 1h 58m · CA
Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, an environmental lawyer rebuilds her life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter, only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.