Matt is an award-winning American. He is a film director dedicated to bringing life to great stories and characters.
After studying at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and The Department of Theatre, Film & Dance at Cornell University, Matt became a Senior Creative Director at MTV in the On-Air Promos department where he wrote and directed campaigns for countless series and received a GLAAD award for his Pro-Social work for the network.
He transitioned his comedic sensibilities to commercial directing for clients like AT&T, Smirnoff, Sauza Tequila, EA Sports, ESPN, H&R Block and has been honored at the AICP.
He has directed music videos for breakout musicians like Mark Ronson, Band of Horses, and Fall Out Boy for which Matt won an MTV Video Music Award. His music videos have earned well over 60 million hits on YouTube.
Matt’s short films have screened globally. His film Meaning of Robots premiered at Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, was honored at The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Director’s/ New Films, and won the Nashville Film Festival.
He is in development on a Television Series based on his web-series adaptations of the comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship. Matt’s Perry Bible Fellowship films screened at the 2015 Ted Talks, and garnered the Vimeo Staff Pick.
Most recently he’s involved in opening the Metrograph Movie Theater in downtown New York City. The town’s first independent theater to open in a decade.
He is a native New Yorker, and thinks the world of his Mom.