Biography

Matt Houghton is an award-winning filmmaker. His films experiment in particular with form, often treading the line between fact and fiction. His latest short film Landline won the 2018 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Short and was selected as one of Vimeo’s Best Of The Year 2019. His first short film Dear Araucaria, made in partnership with the Guardian, was released to much acclaim, winning the Audience Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015. Later that year, Matt worked as second unit director on BAFTA-nominated feature Notes On Blindness before being selected as part of the class of ‘16 on the BFI’s NET.WORK@LFF professional development programme. The following year, Matt released two more shorts, Four Weddings, his second film made with the Guardian, and Hands Up, Chin Down which had its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018. A founding member of multi-award-winning studio Fee Fie Foe and recently named as both a Film London Lodestar and a member of Berlinale Talents 2020, Matt is currently developing his debut feature. 
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Credits

Kurupting The Industry: The People Just Do Nothing Story 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
-   Director 2021

Other Credits

Four Weddings Short Film View
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Four Weddings is a short documentary that follows four brides in four different parts of the world through their wedding day. The film clocked over 1 million views in its first month online. Commissioned by the Guardian and supported by Nikon. 2018
Landline Short Film View
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Winner, Best Documentary Short Grierson Awards 2018 Landline is a short documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers. Through a series of recorded telephone conversations and reconstructive visuals, the film uses the helpline as a lens through which to view the experiences of LGBTQ people in the British farming community. In a world that prizes traditional masculinity and in which ideas of ancestry are fundamental, being gay can be isolating. Candid, intimate and shocking, Landline is a snapshot of a group of people bound together by circumstance but so often disconnected from each other. 2018
Dear Araucaria Short Film View
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Winner, Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award 2015 Better known by his pseudonym Araucaria, John set the Guardian cryptic crossword for 55 years. In December 2012, crossword number 25,842 appeared in the paper with a series of clues that once solved, revealed a personal message from Araucaria to his puzzle-solving followers. A puzzle in itself, this short film unpicks crossword number 25,842 to journey into John’s world of clue-making. Shifting between imagination and reality, Dear Araucaria meets the man who has given his life to crosswords and is only now coming to understand the dramatic impact he has had on a community of solvers. 2015
Hands Up, Chin Down Short Film View
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World Premiere, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 Hands Up, Chin Down is a short documentary about Jerry Mitchell, one of the most respected coaches in amateur boxing. Based on a series of raw audio recordings and lasting exactly the length of a round of boxing, the film is a conceptual study of the coaching process with its strange mix of brutality and care. 2018
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