nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society

a ConveRsaTIon WITh maTTheW poRTeRfIeld
9:00 am– 10:30 am, Sunday, november 14
upstairs Screening Room, movies at midway
admission: Free (advance registration is not required)
For those of you who read the catalog from cover to cover, it will come as old news that
matthew Porterfield was recently announced by Filmmaker magazine as one of its “25
new Faces of independent Film” the list “spotlights up-and-comers poised to shape the
next generation of independent film.” this baltimore resident is someone who has received
accolades from major publications, critical praise from writers and festivals throughout
the world, and is a well travelled director/writer/producer who is content to call baltimore
his home. Spending time between making films and teaching film at Johns hopkins University,
matthew is happy working outside of the “hollywood machine.” his films are a reflection of
and a reaction to his surroundings as well as his persona.
Join RbFS Founding board member Rob Rector as he sits down with matthew Porterfield
to discuss filmmaking, matt’s influences and motivations, thoughts on being a new face of
independent Film, his past film, hamilton, current film Putty hill (Screening in RbiFF, see page
77) and what’s on the horizon. it is sure to be an insightful, entertaining, and informative
morning.
maTT poRTeRfIeld
Matt studied film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and
teaches screenwriting, theory, and production in the Film
& Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University.
His first feature, Hamilton, was released theatrically 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 arthouse
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
Independent Film Week, where the screenplay won the
Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grand Prize. Putty Hill,
which premiered this year at the Berlinale’s International
Forum of New Cinema, will be released by Cinema Guild
in early 2011.
modeRaToR: Rob ReCToR
Rob is one of the founding Board members of the Rehoboth
Beach Film Society and the Rehoboth Beach Independent
Film Festival. He has been a published film reviewer
for more than 15 years, currently writing for The Cape
Gazette and Flixster (the owners of Rotten Tomatoes). He
is currently the Head of the English and Communications
Departments as well as a Film instructor at Delaware
Technical and Community College. When not doing any of
the above….he loves Nacho’s.
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