Matthew Porterfield

Director

“I try to rely a lot on my own intuition, on what I think about the frame. It’s better maybe not to be too dogmatic about the things you’d like to see.”

Biography

Matt Porterfield was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 6, 1977. He studied film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2006, he made his first feature film, Hamilton. Along with working as a director and screenwriter, Porterfield also teaches screenwriting and production at the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. Putty Hill is his second feature film. –Berlinale