
Person
Matthew Puccini
Directing · San Francisco, California, USA
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.
Known for

Maniac
Other

The Girl on the Train
Production Assistant

Zoolander 2
Producer's Assistant

Steve Jobs
Producer's Assistant

Callback
Director

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Producer's Assistant

Lavender
Director

Quitters
Intern

King Jack
Production Intern

Starfuckers
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2026CallbackDirector
- 2022StarfuckersExecutive Producer
- 2020The Gay AgendaDirector
- 2020DirtyDirector
- 2019LavenderDirector
- 2018ManiacOther
- 2018MarquiseDirector
- 2017The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)Producer's Assistant
- 2017The Mess He MadeDirector
- 2016The Girl on the TrainProduction Assistant
- 2016Zoolander 2Producer's Assistant
- 2015SoloDirector
- 2015Steve JobsProducer's Assistant
- 2015King JackProduction Intern
- 2015QuittersIntern
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