Matthew Puccini

Matthew is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His short film Dirty premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and will screen at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. His short film Lavender was acquired for distribution by Fox Searchlight and screened at the 2019 Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals. His short film The Mess He Made screened at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and was nominated for the Iris Prize.

Matthew is a 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a member of the 2017 New York Film Festival Artist Academy and a 2018 Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film and as one of Indiewire's 25 LGBTQ Filmmakers On The Rise. He is developing his first feature film.