DEVINE ON-SCREEN APPEARANCES
My on-camera feature film debut was the Netflix horror Blood of the Beast (2003). Since then, I’ve featured in dozens of films, as well as commercials and print ads, appearing in Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Tubi, and various other streaming platforms.
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DEMO REEL
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.
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. Matt 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.
RED EARTH
THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS
THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS is an award-winning cine-poem and Matt’s 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–who also acts in the film. The movie 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.
Past Filmography Selections
DEAD BUFFALO: This 2009 film follows a terminally ill man named Charlie Johnson. Although he is estranged from his family, Charlie stays in touch with his two sons, Dustin and Dennis (Matt). The sons have chosen very different paths in life: Dennis is unemployed and volunteers to curate weekly poetry readings in their hometown, while Dustin works a well-paying job as a program analyst at a major firm.
THE GREAT WALL OF CALCUTTA: This 2009 film highlights an Indian-American woman who gets engaged to a white American man (Matt), triggering tension between her and her traditional Indian father. When her father travels to America to test and evaluate the fiancé, the couple does everything they can to convince him to grant them permission to marry.
JANE’S EVERLASTING HEART CONDITION: Matt plays the love interest, Les, whose avoidance incessantly perturbs the film’s star Jane–who finds herself on a journey of self-discovery. This 2014 grassroots feature romance is a story of unrequited love and coming of age, exhibiting the complexities of young adult life in America.