Matthew Wade
- Known for
- Directing
Matthew Wade is an independent filmmaker working across live action, stop-motion, and 2D animation. His films have screened four times at Slamdance, as well as the San Francisco International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and dozens more around the world. He has received awards from Slamdance, Sun Valley Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, and Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, among others. His feature films have found audiences through cult film favorites NoBudge and the Slamdance Channel. Wade also works in commercial animation, working on projects for brands including Patagonia, MTV, Vans, Target, Whole Foods, and stop-motion for an Apple iPhone commercial directed by Michel Gondry. His personal film work draws on dream logic, handmade worlds, and the visual language of genre cinema, blending practical filmmaking with animation to explore memory, transformation, belief, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined.
Filmography
Eyes at the Specter Glass TBA
Editor, Animation, Director, Music, Writer, Producer
When the Moon Returns 2024
Animation
Quantum Cowboys 2023
Animation
Superior 2022
Animation
A Black Rift Begins to Yawn 2021
Director, Writer, Editor, Music
Maniac Landscapes 2018
Producer, Editor, Director, Animation
6 Dynamic Laws for Success (in Life, Love & Money) 2018
Special Props
Plena Stellarum 2016
Director, Producer, Editor
How the Sky Will Melt 2015
Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Music, Director, Producer
Superior 2015
Animation
- It Shines and Shakes and Laughs
It Shines and Shakes and Laughs 2008
Cinematography, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer, Music, Animation
Credits from TMDB.