Superfluid Films is a New York City-based production company and creative studio. Specialists in making inventive and award-winning documentary films, we channel our dedication to that artform into our work with agencies, brands, and cultural institutions to craft captivating and shareable content that informs, inspires, and entertains.
Building on the critically acclaimed work of Ager-Meillier Films, our wide range of experience and global network of top filmmaking talent enable us to bring superior production quality to every project while remaining a nimble and responsive studio. Most important for us is a desire to make films with empathy and sensitivity about people who are trying to make the world a better place.
Alex Meillier
Alex is a documentary film producer, writer, director, and editor. His filmmaking career began in 2005 while he was stationed in Timor-Leste and Sumatra, Indonesia working for the United Nations. After returning to the US, Alex began producing feature documentaries with his wife, Tanya Ager Meillier. Their first feature, OBSCENE (2007), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and broadcast on Sundance Channel US. In 2012 Alex directed the critically acclaimed documentary ALIAS RUBY BLADE. Other professional credits include the New York Times Critics Pick GATHER (2020, Editor), Amir Bar-Lev's LONG STRANGE TRIP (2017, Add'l Editor), Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (2009, Editor), BORN TO FLY: ELIZABETH STREB VS. GRAVITY (2014, Editor, Emmy award nominee), the HBO documentary HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (2014, Editor) and numerous commercial credits. Originally from Minneapolis, he now resides in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Matthew Laumb
Matt has been a producer and director of documentary films, a writer, a photographer, and an amateur astronomer ever since his youthful ambitions to be a climate scientist were thwarted by advanced calculus. He got his start in New York City with MTV’s News & Documentaries division, where he produced and directed several episodes of the Emmy Award-winning documentary series True Life. During this time he also produced projects on a wide range of subjects, including the Iraq War, Chernobyl, and New York's unhoused population. In recent years, while living in London and Miami, he has teamed up with the investigative reporting unit at Fusion Media Group as a producer, writer, and director of the award-winning Netflix investigative documentary series The Naked Truth and has worked alongside veteran journalist Jorge Ramos on his culture and current affairs series Real America. Matt is now back in New York, living in Brooklyn, where he finds it challenging to indulge in his astrophotography hobby.