Matthew Puccini grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and lives in Los Angeles. His short films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, qualified for the Academy Awards, and have been acquired by The Criterion Channel, Oscilloscope, Topic and Searchlight Pictures. Matthew is a former SFFILM Rainin Grant recipient, Sundance Ignite Fellow, member of the New York Film Festival Artist Academy, and Creative Culture Fellow. He was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and as one of Indiewire’s LGBTQ Filmmakers On The Rise.