Matthew Wade
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.
Known for
Superior
March 25, 2022
Quantum Cowboys
October 14, 2023
Superior
January 23, 2015
How the Sky Will Melt
September 1, 2015
6 Dynamic Laws for Success (in Life, Love & Money)
May 10, 2018
A Black Rift Begins to Yawn
February 12, 2021
Plena Stellarum
March 6, 2016
When the Moon Returns
June 25, 2024
Maniac Landscapes
November 16, 2018
Eyes at the Specter Glass
Behind the camera11
- 2024When the Moon Returns Animation
- 2023Quantum Cowboys Animation
- 2022Superior Animation
- 2021A Black Rift Begins to Yawn Director, Writer, Editor, Music
- 2018Maniac Landscapes Director, Animation, Editor, Producer
- 20186 Dynamic Laws for Success (in Life, Love & Money) Special Props
- 2016Plena Stellarum Director, Producer, Editor
- 2015How the Sky Will Melt Writer, Editor, Music, Cinematography, Director, Producer
- 2015Superior Animation
- 2008