Matt Porter
Directing
Biography
Matt Porter is a writer, director, and sometimes actor. He is the co-director/co-writer/co-star of the Webby Award-winning Comedy Central web series NEW TIMERS, and was featured as part of the "New Faces: Creators" category at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. Matt was the Field Director for The Chris Gethard Show on TruTV, and has written and directed content for Funny or Die, TBS, Adult Swim, MTV, Sony, and others. His web series Good Cop Great Cop, a collaboration with writer/cartoonist Charlie Hankin, has been screened at SXSW and was an official selection at the New York Television Festival. His narrative short films have screened at Tribeca, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Frameline, Hollyshorts, Short of the Week, and others. His short film DAMAGE won Best Narrative Short at the Riverrun International Film Festival in North Carolina, and his first feature film 5 DOCTORS, which he co-directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures. He is currently writing for Family Guy, as well as for an upcoming show for Peacock. He graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.
Known For
A series of stand-alone horror shorts ranging from the terrifying to the ridiculous.
Bite Size Halloween
A self-centered hypochondriac returns to his quaint hometown to visit his five childhood doctors in a single day, avoiding everyone from his past except his hapless former best friend whom he ropes into driving him around.
5 Doctors
Andy, socially awkward and single, is sent into an emotional spiral after mistakenly offending a woman at a party.
Hasta La Vista
Glenn wakes up to discover that his personal data has been leaked and is spreading virally all over the world.
See Saw
In an attempt to get his life together, Ryan, a slacker in his mid-20s, gets a temp data entry job in a soul-crushing cubicle farm. He volunteers to pull an all-nighter to finish a time-sensitive project for the company. But late at night, alone in the office, Ryan discovers a dying, disheveled man hiding above the ceiling tiles. He's a former employee, the guy Ryan's essentially replacing, and he needs help...
Man in Ceiling
A man with trouble sleeping volunteers for an overnight study and makes an unlikely friend.
Nighty Night
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.
Carmen & Moony
After a break-up with his long time girlfriend, Charles explores parts of his sexuality that he never allowed himself to explore before.
Flex
Mitch & Emma's breakup is interrupted by Ryan, a stranger looking to buy Mitch's bass amp.
Damage
A bisexual man meets an attractive couple to explore the possibilities of life as a “unicorn”: a drama free, emotionally non-threatening third.
Unicorn
Max, about to start his first week of teaching health at a middle school, finds out he has a rare venereal disease with only one symptom.
Gunderson's
When two tough guys leave a bar to fight, their search for the right spot becomes an adventure.
Talk Outside
A pregnant woman heads down to her family's beach condo in Florida to get away for the weekend but ends up running into her past.
Claire at Seven Months
A filmmaker's anxiety begins to manifests physically as she takes control of her vision.
Crone's Disease
An audio-visual experience documenting what happens when Josh Garrels and Mason Jar Music go to an island to try to create something beautiful.
The Sea in Between
Hank, fresh off a fight with his girlfriend, travels for a weekend alone to a quaint bed and breakfast, only to inadvertently trigger a fight between the elderly couple who runs it.