Matthew 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 (2020, 2019) and SXSW (2020, 2019, 2017), qualified for the 2020 Academy Awards, and have been acquired by The Criterion Channel, Oscilloscope, Topic and Searchlight Pictures. Matthew is a 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a member of the 2017 New York Film Festival Artist Academy, a recipient of the Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship 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 currently developing two feature films, The Stud (2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant Recipient and Homewrecker (2022 Gotham Project Market.)