Matt's feature script Sweet Science was recently optioned for production. With his company Norton Films, he is developing The Sequel, with Mindy Cohn and Morgan Fairchild attached. Matt's screenwriting work includes an adaptation of a film in development for Vince Cannon Films, Golden Pasture, by National Book Award winner, Joyce Carol Thomas. He's also written film and video scripts for Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tom Neff’s Wild Wolf Productions. He has a BA from University of Tennessee, and n MA in English Literature from Tennessee State University.
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Sweet Science Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy In 1947, a peace-loving scientist, trying to learn the fate of the Mega-Powered Weapon System he is devising, decides to switch brain-waves with a scientist in the future, the year 2023. Complications ensue when his brain-waves land in a boxer preparing for a heavyweight title fight. (Formerly optioned)
Donald's Block Party Comedy ⋄ Drama An introverted, young, black librarian, faced with a bank taking over the library's property, has a week to put on a show and raise ten thousand dollars. He finds himself in over his head after he hires the city's most notorious ex-convict rapper as headliner.
Wiki Screenplay Contest
(2022)
FilmMakers International Screenplay Contest - Finalist
(2018)
WeScreenplay Diverse Voices - Finalist
(2018)
Action On Film - Written Word, Runner Up, Comedy
(2014)
Red Inkworks - Winner, Runner Up
(2013)
Indie Gathering - 1st place Thriller script
(2009)