Elizabeth graduated from Bristol University in 1977 with a First Class Honours Degree in Law. She became a partner at Simon Olswang & Co in 1982 specialising in tax-related film financing and co productions, including levy-assisted television structures. She represented the bank in both the first and the largest of the film leases that characterised film financing in the late 1980s.

Elizabeth left Olswang's in 1987 to join Consolidated Productions as Head of Business and Legal Affairs. In the following year she was promoted to President and during her tenure was responsible for over seeing both production and distribution. Consolidated turnover rose from just under $2,500,000 per year to a turnover in excess of $25,000,000 with a production/distribution slate in excess of fifty hours per year. Most of the slate consisted of co productions between European and American broadcasters.

In 1991 Elizabeth co founded Peakviewing with her brother Paul. Their short-term aim was to establish a reputation as the producer of quality programming to the international television market. The long-term aim, now well on its way to realisation, is the establishment of a powerful production and distribution base addressing the television and theatrical markets.

Elizabeth Matthews has now been producing and distributing for twenty years.

Paul Matthews began writing in 1990 with an outline for a series to be based upon the western books by JT Edson, since realised as the four hour miniseries: GUNS OF HONOR, starring JURGEN PROCHNOW, MARTIN SHEEN and CORBIN BERNSEN, and gave up his other employment when he created Peakviewing Productions in 1991.

Since creating Peakviewing, Paul has written much of the Company's material to date, including Peakviewing's first film - "The Christmas Stallion" starring DANIEL J TRAVANTI - and the GUNS OF HONOR miniseries.

Peakviewing's family movie "A Christmas Reunion", starring JAMES COBURN and EDWARD WOODWARD (co-written by Paul and also shot in English as well as in Welsh) was nominated by BAFTA for awards as Best Welsh Drama and Best Actress.

In 1995, Paul made his directorial debut. He has since directed six films, all of which he also wrote and will shortly begin shooting BERSERKER.

Paul oversees all of the company's development and production slate.

Peter Matthews began his filmmaking career in 1989 as an assistant editor, working for Keith Palmer. He has not looked back since, having edited or assisted on 17 movies over the last few years, including THE NIGHTMARE YEARS, a six part, 9 hour miniseries, shot in Hungary and Paris as a Consolidated/RAI/Telemunchen Coproduction for TNT, SECRET WEAPON a Griffin Production for TNT, HANDS OF A MURDERER a Norman Foster Production for CBS, COVINGTON CROSS, a prime time one hour series for ABC and IRAN a Consolidated/Rai Coproduction for TNT in association with TF1.

Peter joined Peakviewing full time in 1995 as Head of Post Production and has been responsible for many of the company's activities since. In 1998, he was promoted to the role of Executive in Charge of Production, which expanded his area of responsibility across the whole production field and early this year he was promoted again, this time to Managing Director of the company with overall responsibility for operations generally and for maintaining consumer and supplier relationships.