Cinema & Media Arts
Matthew Miller
Contract Faculty
BIOGRAPHY
Matthew Miller holds a BFA (2003) and MFA (2016) from York University’s Department of Film. He has established himself as one of Canada’s up and coming creative producers. His films have screened and won top prizes at international festivals including TIFF, Sundance, HotDocs, Locarno and Busan. His 4th year student short film, the darkly comedic fable THE SCHOOL was a smash hit on the international festival scene and was named the Best Canadian Short Film at the Atlantic Film Festival. In 2007 he wrote, directed and produced his debut feature film SURVIVING CROOKED LAKE. The coming-of-age wilderness, survival story went on to win the Kodak Vision Award for Cinematography at the Slamdance Film Festival. In 2013 he produced THE DIRTIES directed by Matt Johnson. The found footage comedy about two misunderstood teens planning a school shooting burst onto the scene winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival before being picked up by filmmaker Kevin Smith for his distribution label. It was that same year that Miller and Johnson joined forces to form their production company, Zapruder Films. Their first project under their new banner was the feature film OPERATION AVALANCHE, a revisionist history, comedic-spy thriller that imagines a world where the CIA engaged Stanley Kubrick to help them fake the moon landing for NASA (World Premiere, Sundance 2016). The film was distributed by Lionsgate and received 6 Canadian Screen Award nominations including Best Picture. Following that, they went into production on two seasons of their off-the-wall, truer-than-fiction television series NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW (VICELAND 2016-17) which was been nominated for 4 Canadian Screen Awards including Best Comedy Series.
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