DEVINE FILM PROJECTS
Below is collection of films, documentaries, and hosted series involving yours truly. As an all-around filmmaker, I work as any of the following:
-Actor
-Director
-Host
-Writer
-Producer
-Editor
-Sound & Music Coordinator
-AD
What unites my projects is the theme of social consciousness. Whether hosted travel content or observational ethnography, my work tackles substantive issues of existential and culturally prescient issues. With some comedic edge sprinkled in for good measure.
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ONE BUT MANY
ONE BUT MANY is a feature documentary that reveals how the escalating global crisis of Human-Wildlife Conflict is being weaponized against the very people and animals it affects most. I am a Co-Producer on the project.
The film exposes deep ties between the trophy hunting industry and policy decisions driven by both the U.S., and African governments, leaving communities and wildlife in deadly peril. But in parts of Kenya, where trophy hunting has been banned for decades, extraordinary models of coexistence are not only emerging—they’re thriving.
With raw truth and radical hope, One But Many dares to reimagine how humans and wildlife share space in an increasingly complex world.
The film is an official selection at the 2025 Dances With Films festival, premiering on June 29 at 2:30pm at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS is an award-winning cine-poem and my directorial debut.
The Unknown Depths is an elegy to existential crisis and unrequited adieux. With an evocative original score from Grammy Award winning composer Markus Illko, this dramatic short, in a sleek experimental, le realisme poétique style, uses footage from all habitable continents to display the universality of the human experience.
Written, Directed, and Produced by Matt, the film was an Official Selection at the 2023 Sunscreen Film Festival and a Gold Remi Award Winner at the 2023 WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival and an Official Selection at the 2023 Silent City Film Festival. Matt also won “Best Director” at Cineverse’s 2024 HybridGrenre film festival in Los Angeles. The full film is available to watch online here at STASH FILM SHORTS.
THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS
RED EARTH
RED EARTH is a science fiction feature film and glimpse into the future of post-apocalyptic Earth, after humans colonize Mars and return to the Mother Planet on a fated mission. I was a Producer, Contributing Writer, and Actor in the project.
Red Earth imagines a world in the late Anthropocene, where large parts of Earth have become inhospitable to life. The story follows three generations of Martians, from the first colonists to the first expedition to return to an Earth decimated by interplanetary war.
The film won a Jury Mention for Cinematography at the Oscar-qualifying 2023 Atlanta Film Festival and Best Sci Fi Feature at the 2024 New York Sci Fi Festival. It also screened at the 2023 Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival, the 2023 Cine Underground in Italy in October 2023 and at the Brooklyn Sci Fi Festival in September 2024. It is available to watch on Amazon, Apple TV+, and Tubi.
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLENNIAL? is a comedic look at how the Millennial generation is hacking everyday routines to live lives of meaning and abundance. I was the Creator, Host, and EP on the project.
The pilot for Who Wants to Be a Millennial? premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as an Official Selection at the 2023 Dances With Films festival.
The concept is “Dirty Jobs” meets “Parts Unknown” with a “Daily Show” segment twist, this day-in-the-life-of series isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions about the difficult hand Millennials were dealt–and whether or not they deserve their controversial reputation.
Release of pilot as documentary coming in 2025.
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLENNIAL?
SKYFOREST
SKYFOREST is a horror/sci-fi short film, starring Matt as a seemingly unhinged doomsday prepper who’s hiding something unexpected in his tool shed.
When a carefree playboy travels to a secluded mountain town hoping to reconnect with some estranged friends, he discovers a terrible secret lurking in the tool shed behind their cabin. Skyforest is a thrilling examination of brotherhood, trust, and the human capacity for survival.
Matt won “Best Supporting Actor” for the role at the 2024 Festival of the Unknown and the film won “Best Sci Fi Short” at the 2024 Culver City Film Festival. The film premiered at the 2024 Chicago Horror Film Festival and has screened at the 2024 Brooklyn Sci Fi Film Festival, the 2024 Miami Intl. Sci Fi Film Festival, and the 2024 Another Hole in the Head Festival.
Past Filmography Selections
LOA: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SACRED SPIRITS OF HAITI: Produced by Matt, this feature documentary is a visual chronicle of the Vodou religion as practiced in the rural mountains of Haiti. The film was an Official Selection at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, Indie Grits, DocFeed, and Oaxaca Film Festivals, and nominated in the Best Documentary category at the 2016 Atlanta Film Festival. The film is available to watch here on GUIDE DOC.
CITY OF MERMAIDS: Co-Written and Produced by Matt, this is a coming-of-age story about a girl faced with a decision to leave her small town to chase her dreams or keep working as an underwater mermaid performer at a roadside attraction. It was shot at Weeki Wachee Springs, FL in 2014. The project’s sizzle reel can be seen here (left).
LAST STOP, FLAMINGO: Matt was a segment producer on this feature documentary, which takes a look at reflects on the many ways in which human desires have irreversibly shaped Florida’s landscapes five-hundred years after Ponce de Leon’s discovery. The film was the 2014 Indie Grits Festival’s Best Feature winner & the same year’s US Super 8 Festival Best Documentary. It can be watched here on MUBI.
TK'S HOSTED WORKS
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED was an Anthony Bourdain style, self-contained docu-series following me in my Ford Tiny Home as I road-tripped across America, unearthing everyday people pioneering exceptional lifestyle downsizing shortcuts to define their own alternative version of the American Dream.
This series was pitched through the Creative Artists Agency and Brian Graden Media. It is being completed as a mini-series for streaming by 2026.
Additionally, below are highlight episodes to independently produced series I’ve put together. Thanks for watching!
TK TRAVELS ASIA
My Travelographer Edition series are semi-planned, spontaneously produced docu-series I edit together myself whenever I visit a new place. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel to keep in touch with more videos. I also release videos early on the “Stories” of my @Devine_Diaries Instagram page.
TK CLIMBS
PEAKS
My Peakbagger Edition series are a little more planned than the Travelographer episodes, but self-produced and edited. And tricky when the climbing gets tough! Subscribe to my YouTube Channel to keep in touch with more videos. I also release videos early on the “Stories” of my @Devine_Diaries Instagram page.
TINY LIVING
W/TK
Two collections of tiny living videos are on my YouTube Channel. One features Videos of TK’s Porta-Home and the other highlights Tiny Living Talks & Interviews I’ve given over the years. I also release videos early on the “Stories” of my @Devine_Diaries Instagram page.
TK TRAVELS AMERICA'S 4 CORNERS
Watch the 8-part series unfold on the Devine Diaries Travelographer Edition: 4 Corners series on YouTube. Videos were originally made for @Devine_Diaries Instagram Stories, which is why they’re filmed in portrait mode.