Matthew grew up in the San
Francisco Bay Area, attended
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and
currently resides in Los Angeles.
His short film Dirty premiered at
the 2020 Sundance Film Festival,
received a Special Jury Mention
at SXSW and was acquired by the
Criterion Channel. His previous
short film, Lavender, also screened
at Sundance and SXSW and was
acquired by Searchlight Pictures
for an Academy Award-qualifying
theatrical run. Matthew is a former
Sundance Ignite fellow, member
of the New York Film Festival
Artist Academy and recipient of
the SFFILM Rainin Grant. He was
selected as one of Filmmaker
Magazine’s 25 New Faces of
Independent Film in 2019 and
as one of Indiewire’s LGBTQ
Filmmakers on the Rise. He is
currently developing several feature
films, including Homewrecker,
which was selected for the 2024
Tribeca Creators Market and 2022
Gotham Project Market, and Hearth,
which he is developing as part of
the 2025 TFL ScriptLab. His work is
intimate, performance driven and
often explores emotionally complex
relationships.