Born in Baltimore, MD, Matt Porterfield studied film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and teaches screenwriting and production at Johns Hopkins University.
His first feature film, Hamilton, which he wrote, directed, and edited on 16mm was released in 2006. Called “one of the finest American independent films ever made” by New Yorker film editor Richard Brody, it continues to tour festivals, museums, and art-house theatres around the world and was included in John Water’s 2006 Top Ten in Artforum International.
Metal Gods, his second feature script, was selected to participate in the Emerging Narrative Program at IFP’s 30th Annual Independent Film Week, where the screenplay won the Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grand Prize. Locally, Matt’s photography has appeared at the Current Gallery, Gallery 229, and in the Fall 2008 issue of Locus Magazine. A recipient of a media grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, Matt was selected in 2008 as one of Baltimore’s “40 under 40” by Baltimore Magazine.
Matt and Jordan, the operating
managers of The Hamilton Film Group, met their
first year at NYU, in 1995, through the 16mm film
series Jordan developed and operated out of his
dorm room. Before producing Hamilton, Jordan
assisted on projects by directors such as Hal Hartley,
Amir Naderi, and Vojtech Jasny. Currently living
in Paris, France, he works as an international
tax specialist for Cabinet Simonard and writes
as a film critic for Variety and The Paris Times.
A recipient of the Undergraduate Cinematography Award at NYU, Jeremy Saulnier trained at the International Film Workshops in Rockport, Maine, completing the Cinematographer’s Master Class with John Toll, ASC. Jeremy’s work on Hamilton, won the film many admirers and an award for “Best Cinematography” at the 2007 Atlanta Film Festival. Additionally, Jeremy’s completed two shorts (including the award-winning comedy Crabwalk), numerous commercials, and another feature, his own directorial debut, Murder Party (2007), released by Magnolia Pictures.
A graduate of Boston University’s
School of Management, Steve Holmgren is a New
York-based independent film producer and sales
agent. Steve previously worked in production at
HDNet Films, (Redacted, Bubble, Broken English, Enron:
The Smartest Guys in the Room). Steve is also involved
with international film sales, primarily dealing with
documentaries for Cactus Three (loudQUIETloud:
A Film About the Pixies, Devil’s Playground, Sketches
of Frank Gehry). In addition, Steve has worked
with
several
film
festivals
in
operations
and
programming, including Telluride, Sundance, Sound
Unseen, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.
Andrew Fierberg is a leading New York-based producer who has produced numerous provocative independent films under his own label, Studio Fierberg and doubleA films. In 2004, he formed Vox3 Films with Steven Shainberg and Christina Weiss Lurie.
Most recently, Andrew produced Rage by Sally Potter, starring Judy Dench, Jude Law, John Leguizamo and Steve Buscemi, The Windmill Movie by Alex Olch, which premiered at the 2008 New York Film Festival, and Lunchbreak/Exit by artist Sharon Lockhart, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Other projects include: Stephen Shainberg’s Secretary, 13 Conversations About One Thing, starring Matthew McConaughey and Alan Arkin, Isaac Julien’s Baltimore, Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, and Bill Murray, Jonathan Nossiter’s Sunday, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and Nadja produced with David Lynch. More recently, Andrew produced Gina Kim’s Never Forever, Zoe Cassavettes’ directorial debut Broken English, starring Parker Posey and Gena Rowlands, Steven Shainberg’s Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., and Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane which he produced with Steve Soderbergh.
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WITH METAL GODS and the HAMILTON FILM GROUP, LLC
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