Matthew O'Neill

Filmmakers · Can't Look Away (2025)

Co-director of Can't Look Away, following families' legal fight against social-media platforms over harm to their children.

Matthew O'Neill is a documentary filmmaker who co-directed Can't Look Away (2025) with Perri Peltz. The film follows cases brought by the Social Media Victims Law Center, in which families pursue legal action against major platforms over harm they say their children suffered. Rather than arguing the case in the abstract, the documentary follows the real families and litigation at the center of the growing legal reckoning with social-media companies, putting specific faces and stories behind the broader debate about platform responsibility for harm to young users.