Matthew "Matt" Porterfield (born October 6, 1977) is an American
independent filmmaker. He has made four feature films to date,
Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), I Used to Be Darker (2013) and
Sollers Point (2017). Putty Hill and I Used to Be Darker had their
international premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival. All
of his features have had their local premieres at the Maryland Film
Festival.Porterfield was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and had formal
training at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He
teaches screenwriting and production in the Film and Media Studies
Program at Johns Hopkins University.His low-budget debut feature,
Hamilton, made on 16 mm film with a cast of non-professional actors
from Baltimore, proved a "minor miracle", wrote Richard Brody in The
New Yorker. The magazine went on to tag the film as "the most
original, moving and an accomplished American independent film in
recent years".Considered a sleeper hit, Porterfield's Putty Hill again
reverted to his hometown as the film revolves around a small working
class community in Baltimore city. The film was critically acclaimed
for combining documentary and narrative traditions into a lyrical
study of memory and loss. It was featured in the 2013 Whitney
Biennial.
independent filmmaker. He has made four feature films to date,
Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), I Used to Be Darker (2013) and
Sollers Point (2017). Putty Hill and I Used to Be Darker had their
international premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival. All
of his features have had their local premieres at the Maryland Film
Festival.Porterfield was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and had formal
training at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He
teaches screenwriting and production in the Film and Media Studies
Program at Johns Hopkins University.His low-budget debut feature,
Hamilton, made on 16 mm film with a cast of non-professional actors
from Baltimore, proved a "minor miracle", wrote Richard Brody in The
New Yorker. The magazine went on to tag the film as "the most
original, moving and an accomplished American independent film in
recent years".Considered a sleeper hit, Porterfield's Putty Hill again
reverted to his hometown as the film revolves around a small working
class community in Baltimore city. The film was critically acclaimed
for combining documentary and narrative traditions into a lyrical
study of memory and loss. It was featured in the 2013 Whitney
Biennial.
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