Director

Matthew Puccini

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 1783332

IMDb ID: nm5829086

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2015 - 2026

Years active: 12

Average TMDB rating: 6.32

Wikidata: Q96014106

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Biography

Matthew Puccini (born 1993) is an American filmmaker, known for his short films that deal with LGBTQ-related subject matters. His short film "Callback" premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. His previous short films, "Dirty" and "Lavender," screened at the the 2020 and 2019 Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals and were acquired by The Criterion Channel and Searchlight Pictures. His short film "The Mess He Made" 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 currently developing several feature films.