Born and raised in the small town of Charlton, Massachusetts, Matthew Manyak has always been a highly-creative individual. As a child, Manyak was always engrossing himself in channeling his imagination into physical mediums in the format of drawings and short stories. At the age of 12, living in the tightly-knit town of Apex, North Carolina, he began developing several small-scale backyard films with his friends and neighbors, further kindling a flame that would quickly grow to become the prima