Matt Porterfield

Maryland Film Festival 2013 continues event's expansion

2013-05-13 06:21:00

It used to be that the Maryland Film Festival was just a cool neighborhood event for Courtney Knipp — a bunch of obscure movies being shown just up the street from her home in Mount Vernon. Not anymore, not with thousands of film fans massing in...

Also from Baltimore …

2013-05-04 00:00:00

A dozen films to be shown at this year's Maryland Film Festival have ties to Baltimore or Maryland — a record number, organizers say. Here are some of the highlights: "12 O'Clock Boys" Maryland Institute College of Art grad Lotfy Nathan's...

Matt Porterfield's new movie accepted into Sundance Film Festival

2012-11-29 14:42:26

"I Used to be Darker," the latest movie from Baltimore's Matt Porterfield, will be shown at January's Sundance Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday. "I was in a bit of a state of shock," said Porterfield, who was on a return bus trip from New...

Sondheim Artscape finalists are all over the map

2011-07-06 13:32:00

The five artists in the Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit "Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2011 Finalists" all live in either Baltimore or Washington, D.C., but they are stylistically all over the map. This makes for an eclectic exhibit that changes as you walk...

Arts-donation website helps Matt Porterfield turn his new film into a cliffhanger

2011-08-07 05:39:00

"I Used to Be Darker" is meant to jump from the blocks at full speed: A 19-year-old discovers that she's pregnant, grabs a knife and exacts devastating revenge on the cad who knocked her up. After she loses her job overseeing bumper cars at an Ocean...

Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, TV and more

2011-11-28 10:07:00

Our list of everything going on the week of 11/28-12/4 NOTABLE TV MONDAY Basketball Wives LA: Reunion, Part 2 (special; 8 p.m.; VH1) Top 40 (special; 8 p.m.; BBC America) Bored to Death (season finale; 9 p.m.; HBO) The Closer (mid-season premiere; 9 p....

A few of Matt Porterfield's favorite things

2011-03-03 05:04:00

Matt Porterfield says we can credit Jean-Luc Godard's "Masculine-Feminine" (1966) for the interview structure of "Putty Hill." He also says that Martin Bell's hard-to-find "Streetwise," about Seattle street kids, exerted a huge influence on his two...

Short, but sweet success

2011-05-09 04:18:00

Filmmaker Gregory Bryan says he was "sick and tired of seeing the same Hollywood films." What he came up with instead was "The Dark," an ethereal, 21/2-minute nightmare complete with crawling blackness, creaking skeletons and enough creepiness of all...

New Europe Film Sales Expands to Documentaries

2013-05-14 14:30:04

Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has launched a documentary arm topped by Polish doc producer Anna Wydra. The first pic on its slate is “The Art of Disappearing,” from Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosołowski (Oscar-nommed doc short “Rabbit a la...

Matt Porterfield, whose "Hamilton" and "Putty Hill" presented memorably nuanced takes on life in these parts, is back with this tale of a teen who runs into trouble in Ocean City, then seeks refuge and solace among some Baltimore relatives with troubles of their own. -- Chris Kaltenbach Screens 8 p.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Baltimore filmmaker Matt Porterfield hosts/presents. Screens 2:30 p.m. May 11 at Charles Theatre 2

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Maryland Film Festival 2013 includes a record number of films with Baltimore-area connections, but these may be the two most highly anticipated.

2013-05-01 00:00:00