Matty Rich

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About me

I am creative, I love acting, writing and directing. I love filmmaker and telling stories to spark a conversation and emotion to an audience.
Acting experience:
Film and television.
Additional skills:
Cyclist, speaks French and Spanish
Industry awards:
Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize Award for his critically acclaimed film “Straight out of Brooklyn” in which he was wrote, directed, produced and acted in. Samuel Goldwyn Films distributed the movie theatrically. The film would go on to win the Independent Spirit Award, the NAACP Image Award and The Producer’s Guild Award.
Additional information:
Highly regarded as one of the pioneers of Black Filmmakers, Matty Rich burst onto the Hollywood scene in the early 90’s, gaining major recognition as 19, year old acclaimed actor/writer/ director/ producer with his award-winning film “Straight out of Brooklyn. As fate would have it, Mega Director Jonathan Demme discovered Matty Rich and “Straight out of Brooklyn” during an editing session for “Silence of the Lamb”.
He immediately took him under his wing and the movie went on to be a huge success winning the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize Award for his critically acclaimed film “Straight out of Brooklyn” in which he was wrote, directed, produced and acted in. Samuel Goldwyn Films distributed the movie theatrically. The film would go on to win the Independent Spirit Award, the NAACP Image Award and The Producer’s Guild Award. Shortly thereafter, Matty was inducted into the Directors Guild of America (DGA) by African American Hollywood icons Sidney Poitier and Bill Duke.

From there, Matty then landed a development deal with Tri-Star Pictures under the helm of studio chief, Mike Medavoy. Next, Matty signed a three-picture deal from studio chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg at Disney where he directed the summer splash, “The Inkwell”, which to date is a black film classic. Other credits include development of several television projects including: Red Hook as writer/creator for Warner Brothers/Fox Network, the Tupac Shakur bio project for HBO, and Subway Scholar with Whitney Houston for Showtime Network to name a few.

Staying true to his pioneering spirit, in the mid 2000’s, Matty accepted an offer from video game giant Ubisoft to serve as their Creative Director/Artistic Director for the video game 187 Ride or Die. Rich packed his bags and headed for Paris. During this time, Matty traveled back and forth between Hong Kong and Seoul Korea where he would write and direct cinematics.
Returning to his filmmaking roots, Matty wrote, directed and acted in a 10-minute teaser for his upcoming supernatural television series C-U-R-E. The teaser had a private screening at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 and receive rave reviews. With the promise to deliver the grittiness that made him famous, Rich recently teamed up with Rapper T.I. to star in his upcoming Thriller "Caller 100".

Known for doing his homework, Matty prepares to use his skills in television directing by shadowing director/actor Don Cheadle on an episode of Showtime Network “House of Lies” and director Eriq Lasalle on CBS Network “CSI Cyber”. In the middle of all this, with his creative juices flowing, Matty somehow finds time to author a civil rights novel titled “BEV” which was published by Simon & Schuster.
Currently, Matty Rich serves as a screenwriting faculty member for the American Film Institute (AFI) and a writing/directing advisor for the Sundance Film Festival Co//AB on-line platform.

Matty has been a featured speaker in Hollywood most prominent Entertainment conferences; The official host for the AT &T gaming & technology exhibition during the 2014 BET Awards Fan Fest weekend in Los Angeles. The Ayzenberg A-List Summit (2014) Variety Magazine’s Entertainment Summit (2013-2015) Variety Magazine’s Gaming Summit (2013-2014) Variety Magazine's Mobile Gaming Summit (2013) Variety Magazines 3D Summit, Bloomberg Financial Entertainment Summit (2015) THE DEV youth video game summit (2017) Featured Speaker on Sundance Film Festival Co//ab Digital Platform (2018) Comic Con (2019) Featured Speaker on Augmented Reality/Comic book Panel.

Throughout his career he’s been featured in a plethora of newspapers and magazines -- such as the New York Times, LA Times, New York Magazine, US magazine and Entertainment Weekly -- and appeared on various TV talk shows, including “The Today Show,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Geraldo,” “Conan,” and the “Arsenio Hall Show” -- just to name a few.

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Accents/Dialects	English - General