Michael Weber set up his own sales company, The Match Factory, in 2006. The Match Factory represents renowned arthouse directors such as Aki Kaurismäki, Marco Bellocchio, Fatih Akin, Christian Petzold, Lucrecia Martel, Alice Rohrwacher and Maren Ade.
Since respectively 2012 and 2013, Michael Weber is also partner and producer in two production companies, Pola Pandora and Match Factory Productions, the latter together with Viola Fügen. Both companies produce high quality arthouse films and their line-up include The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio, Invisible Life by Karim Aïnouz, Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Evolution by Kornél Mundruczó, which all premiered at Cannes Film Festival.
In the beginning of 2022, The Match Factory and Match Factory Productions merged with the international streaming platform MUBI.
