Matthew Puccini
Directing
Matthew Puccini (born 1993) is an American filmmaker, known for his short films that deal with LGBTQ-related subject matters. His short film "Callback" premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. His previous short films, "Dirty" and "Lavender," screened at the the 2020 and 2019 Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals and were acquired by The Criterion Channel and Searchlight Pictures. His short film "The Mess He Made" was nominated for the Iris Prize.
Matthew is a 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a member of the 2017 New York Film Festival Artist Academy and a 2018 Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film and as one of Indiewire's 25 LGBTQ Filmmakers On The Rise. He is currently developing several feature films.
Known for
The Girl on the Train
October 5, 2016
Steve Jobs
October 9, 2015
Zoolander 2
February 6, 2016
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
October 13, 2017
King Jack
April 17, 2015
Starfuckers
June 15, 2022
Dirty
January 24, 2020
Quitters
March 16, 2015
The Mess He Made
March 11, 2017
Lavender
March 15, 2019
Callback
January 26, 2026
Solo
November 19, 2015
Behind the camera15
- 2026Callback Director, Writer
- 2022Starfuckers Executive Producer
- 2020The Gay Agenda Director
- 2020Dirty Director, Writer, Producer
- 2019Lavender Director, Writer
- 2018Marquise Director
- 2017The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Producer's Assistant
- 2017The Mess He Made Director, Writer
- 2016The Girl on the Train Production Assistant
- 2016Zoolander 2