Matthew Puccini

Bio

Matthew Puccini is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His latest short film, the Kickstarter-funded Lavender, was recently acquired for distribution by Fox Searchlight and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 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 Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He is currently in post-production on a new short film, Dirty, and developing his first feature. This interview was conducted at the Kickstarter Lodge during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.