Matthew Porterfield

Matthew Porterfield

Fellow: Awarded 2019
Field of Study: Film - Video

Competition: US & Canada

Matt Porterfield is a filmmaker based in Baltimore, MD. He has written and directed four feature films, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), I Used to Be Darker (2013) and Sollers Point (2018). His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Harvard Film Archive and has screened at the Walker Arts Center, Anthology Film Archives, Centre Pompidou, Cinematheque Française, and film festivals such as Sundance, the Berlinale, San Sebastien, Rotterdam, BAFICI and SXSW. In 2012, Matt was a featured artist in the Whitney Biennial, a Creative Capital grantee, and the recipient of a Wexner Center Artists Residency. In summer 2014, he wrote and directed his first narrative short, Take What You Can Carry, with a grant from the Harvard Film Study Center. It premiered in the Shorts Competition at the Berlinale in 2015 and screened at Lincoln Center’s second annual Art of the Real series. The following year, he co-produced and co-wrote Gaston Solnicki’s first fiction feature, Kékszakállú, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a producer, Matt has participated in IFP’s No Borders, Cinemart, FIDLab, the Berlin Coproduction Market and the Venice Production Bridge. He teaches screenwriting, theory and film production at Johns Hopkins University. For his Guggenheim Fellowship, Matt intends to write and develop a new feature in Tijuana, Mexico.

Matt’s portfolio on the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance’s Baker Artist Awards site

Artist photo by Jacob Hansen

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