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Matthew Riutta is an award-winning filmmaker, working in the San Francisco Bay Area’s film and television community for the past 20 years. He has written, directed, and produced several short films including I Don't, Lunch Lady, Sharks & Minnows (Best Short @ California Independent Film Festival), Across (Jury Award/Best Short Film @ 2022 SF IndieFest, Audience Award/2021 @ Bay Area Short Films Festival), and Median (Director’s Choice Award/2022 @ Cinema Diverse, Audience Award/2021 @ SF Queer Film Fest). Matthew was a fellow with SFFilm’s Film House where he further developed his feature film projects Lucky Star and Man Up Above.

As a location manager, Matthew has worked on productions such as HBO’s Looking and Insecure, the Netflix shows Sense8 and Tales of the City, and the films Milk, The Master, and Fruitvale Station (2013 Sundance Film Festival’s Audience and Grand Jury Awards). He is a co-recipient of the California On-Location Award (COLA) for Fruitvale Station, Moneyball, Memoirs of a Geisha, and a COLA nomination for Location Team Of The Year for MILK.

Raised in rural Indiana and now residing in Oakland, CA, Matthew graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Business.