Matthew Boyd
Matthew Boyd is an award winning cinematographer-filmmaker based in Oakland working in feature film, short film, documentary, and television spaces. He earned a BFA in Film & Television Production from the Academy of Art University. His work has been featured on Netflix, HBO Documentary Films, Showtime, Orion Pictures, The History Channel, MTV, Red Bull TV and in film festivals worldwide.
Boyd's recent feature work as cinematographer includes "ZONA", a feature-length documentary about Zona Roberts, the 103 yr old disability rights activist and mother of Ed Roberts. "Mine 9", (Netflix, Showtime) winner of Best Feature Film: Drama at Cinequest, The Festival Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival and Best Feature Film: Thriller, Best Ensemble Cast and Best Director at the Bare Bones Film Festival. And "Hazard", a dramatic feature starring Sosie Bacon, Alex Roe, and Steven Ogg based on the Appalachian opioid epidemic, currently in post production.
Complementing Boyd's work as a cinematographer are self-directed, shot and edited short documentary pieces including, "A Boat for my Brother" winner of best documentary short at the Arizona International Film Festival and Pasadena Film Festival, “Way of the Shepherd", a short film about a Peruvian goat shepherd's fire mitigating flock in the Bay Area currently in post-production and "The Space Between Us" about artist Janet Echelman. He is now in development on his first feature-length documentary as director, "Barren Grounds" chronicling the ill-fated subarctic Moffat Canoe Expedition of 1955.
Contact
mattboyd@me.com
310.754.6680
