Matthew Porterfield - Biography

Matt Porterfield is the writer-director of three acclaimed feature films, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011) and I Used To Be Darker (2013). His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has screened at Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, the Whitney Biennial, and film festivals such as Sundance, the Berlinale, and SxSW. Matt made his first narrative short, Take What You Can Carry, in Berlin this past summer with a grant from the Harvard Film Study Center. His new screenplay, set in southeast Baltimore, has received fiscal support from Creative Capital and the French Ministry of Culture's Centre National du Cinema. Since 2007, he has been teaching film production and theory at Johns Hopkins University.