Matthew Palmer
Matthew is an award-winning director splitting his time between Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Matthew fell in love with film when he was twelve-years-old and saw Fargo for the first time. He’s had a camera (or director’s monitor) in his hand ever since.
Matthew’s work has been screened, published & exhibited globally in The de Young Museum, as well as on prime time TV, during the Winter Olympics, and at Big Sky Film Festival, the Berlin Commercial Festival, and more. His work in commercials and short films earned him the honor of being a part of the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase at Cannes Lions, a Shots Creative’s Rising Stars, an official nominee at the Berlin Commercial Festival, and the recipient of eight Vimeo Staff Picks.
Get in touch!
U.S. Commercials: Avocados & Coconuts
Personal: mattpalmer2@gmail.com. Someday Matthew hopes to meet mattpalmer1.
CLIENTS & BRANDS
Walgreens, Apple, Bombas, Comcast, Allbirds, The Honest Company, Figs, Boys and Girls Club of America, Alltrails, Ralph Lauren, Verizon, Stitch Fix, T.Rowe Price, Nutro Dog Food, Revolut, Therabouts, GRLSWIRL, Jeep, Keurig, General Electric, Call Me Ishmael, Le Creuset, SPD Bank, Accenture & more.
ACCOLADES
Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase, Shots Creative Rising Star, Shiny Award Recipient, Berlin Commercial Awards Shortlist, 7x Vimeo Staff Pick Recipient, The de Young Open Featured Artist, Best Director @ International Independent Film Awards & more.
AWARDS & PRESS
AICP Shortlist, Special Olympics, 2024
Webby Nominee, Ralph Lauren X Foss, 2023
Fellow, Motion Picture Institute, 2023
Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2017
Shots Creative Rising Star 2018
Shortlist, Official 2x Nominee, Berlin Commercial Awards 2022
New York Times Review, This Land
Vimeo Staff Pick, One Week In April
Vimeo Staff Pick, Honest In Thought and Deed
Vimeo Staff Pick, What the Psychic Saw
Vimeo Staff Pick, They’re Only Animals
Vimeo Staff Pick, And Now We’re Here
Vimeo Staff Pick, War Authority
Vimeo Staff Pick, The Star
Vimeo Staff Pick, Ralph Lauren X FOSS
The De Young Open at the De Young Museum, The Mutilated World
The Atlantic Selects, What the Psychic Saw
Aeon Magazine, What the Psychic Saw
Shiny Award Recipient
Jury Honorable Mention, The Audience Awards, Race to Justice, Honest In Thought and Deed
Best Director, Int'l Independent Film Awards, Friends of Mine
Best Feature Documentary, Int'l Independent Film Awards, Friends of Mine
Jury Honorable Mention, Race to Justice, Honest In Thought and Deed
Second Place, Feature Documentary, LA New Wave Int'l Film Festival, Friends of Mine
Best Editing, LA New Wave Int'l Film Festival, Friends of Mine
Third Place, Fandependent Film Festival, Friends of Mine
Accolade Award, Friends of Mine
Profile, Sacramento Business Journal
Upworthy Post, Treat Earth Better
The Huffington Post, Ghost by From Indian Lakes
Interview, Fandependent Films