---
name: "Matīss Kaža"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matiss-kaza"
fi1m_id: "matiss-kaza"
imdb_id: "nm5186633"
tmdb_id: 1105426
wikidata_id: "Q89784818"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "31 August 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-30T22:22:20.738196+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Matīss Kaža

## Identity

Matīss Kaža

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matiss-kaza
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matiss-kaza
- **IMDb ID:** nm5186633
- **TMDB ID:** 1105426
- **Wikidata ID:** Q89784818
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C4%ABss_Ka%C5%BEa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89784818, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5186633/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1105426

Producer. Born 31 August 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 31 August 1995, Stockholm, Sweden
- **Also known as:** Matiss Kaza, ماتيس كازا, Matis Kaza
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C4%ABss_Ka%C5%BEa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89784818, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5186633/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1105426

## Coming up

- *The Child* (2026-10-12), Producer

## Biography

Matīss Kaža is a Latvian filmmaker, producer, director and writer. He co-wrote the screenplay and served as producer on the animated feature *Flow* (2024). He holds a BFA in Film and Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has been a directing fellow at the AFI Conservatory.

Kaža founded the production company Trickster Pictures and has worked as a lead producer at Dream Well Studio. His other credits include producing, writing and directing *Neon Spring* (2022) and *The Taste of Water* (2022), as well as earlier documentary work such as *One Ticket Please* (2017). For *Flow*, he shared the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, becoming the youngest winner in the category.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, matisskaza.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Flow* (2024), Fi1m 83, Production Manager, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/flow.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Child* (2026), Producer
- *Touched by Eternity* (2025), Producer
- *One Girl Infinite* (2025), Producer
- *Drowning Dry* (2024), Co-Producer
- *Flow* (2024), Producer, Screenplay, Production Manager — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/flow.md)
- *The Girls of 1960* (2023), Producer
- *Sisters* (2022), Producer
- *Neon Spring* (2022), Director, Writer, Producer
- *One Hundred Years Older* (2022), Producer, Editor
- *The Taste of Water* (2022), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Wild East* (2021), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Imad's Childhood* (2021), Co-Producer
- *At The Movies* (2020), Director, Writer, Producer
- *When You Look At Me* (2020), Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
- *The Wanderers* (2020), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Memories from Earth* (2019), Producer
- *Meyerhold's Flight* (2018), Writer, Producer, Director
- *The Man and the Dahlias* (2018), Producer
- *Frontier Zone* (2018), Director, Writer, Producer
- *One Ticket Please* (2017), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Flames on the Soil* (2016), Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
- *Check Please* (2015), Production Assistant
- *My Family Tree* (2013), Writer
- *Month of the Witches* (2012), Writer
- *Finding Elvis* (2008), Actor
- *Times New Roman*, Co-Producer
- *Limbo*, Producer
- *Kami Kaze*, Producer
- *Call the Doctor*, Script Consultant
- *Legato*, Producer
- *Magic Mountain*, Co-Producer
- *Insectarium*, Co-Producer

## Gallery

- ![Matīss Kaža](https://film.one/media/person/4129346/gallery-ed533e2a597f.png) Matīss Kaža — [1], CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Mat%C4%ABss_Ka%C5%BEa.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Matīss Kaža with Golden Globe award (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/4129346/gallery-ccba46480798.png) Matīss Kaža with Golden Globe award (2025) — LTV Ziņu dienests, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Mat%C4%ABss_Ka%C5%BEa_with_Golden_Globe_award.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Matīss Kaža](https://film.one/media/person/4129346/gallery-205b1d8ebdae.jpg) Matīss Kaža — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2025: Best Animated Feature (won), for *Flow*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class 2025: Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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