Matt Greenhalgh is an English screenwriter. He created and wrote the BBC television series Burn It, and the television film Legless. He adapted Deborah Curtis's Touching From a Distance—a biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis—into the 2007 film Control, for which he was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Award at the 61st British Academy Film Awards (which he won).Additional awards include the Silver Hugo for Best Screenplay (for Control) at the Chicago International Film Festival and a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best New Writer for Clocking Off.Matt also has a niece,Florence Conway who is an actress along with his daughter,Abby Greenhalgh.