Donna Matson, whose great-grandmother was a Silfven, was co-creater of the award winning movie, My Life as a Dog, with her first husband, Reidar Håkan Vallis Jonsson. Her second husband, Paul C Babin, was a noted cameraman, who worked on projects including The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996).