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Born in Baltimore, MD, Matt Porterfield studied film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and currently teaches screenwriting, film theory and production at Johns Hopkins University. His first feature film, HAMILTON, which he wrote, directed and edited on 16mm film, was released in 2006. METAL GODS, his second feature script, won the Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grand Prize at IFP’s 30th Annual Independent Film Week in 2008. In 2010, his latest film, PUTTY HILL, premiered at the Berlinale’s International Forum of New Cinema; and in February 2011, it was released by Cinema Guild. His films and videos have been screened in several venues and film festivals including AFI, The Wexner Center, Centre Pompidou, the Swedish Film Institute, the George Eastman House, Viennale, Edinburgh and SXSW. Locally, Porterfield’s photographs have been shown at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore’s Current Gallery and Gallery 229. He has been awarded a media grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and was a Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize finalist in 2010.
