Biography

Matt Flugger is a writer, producer, camera operator, editor and IT logistics professional living in Los Angeles.

Matt founded the Los Angeles Edit Co. (laedit.com), where he shot and cut This is Danny Gans (Halsey Group), a biography of the legendary Vegas headliner including interviews with Celine Dion, The Niederlanders, Steve Wynn and Jay Leno. At trailer house Alkemi Matt built a PAL suite and cut the extended trailer for HBO's Tsunami: The Aftermath. Here he also assistant produced an ongoing television advertising campaign for Buena Vista's Saving Shiloh. At JUMP! Creative trailer house, Matt was the associate producer on many trailers, including Sony's The Contract and Perfect Stranger, and New Line's 40the Anniversary Reel and Havoc 2. In Toronto, Matt edited the award-winning short films Polished (dir. Ed Gass Donnelly) and Baby Boy (dir. Patrick Arias).

Matt has shot and produced music videos, promotional materials and single releases for acclaimed Toronto musicians Suzie McNeil (Rock Star: INXS) and Sean Cotton (half of the highly acclaimed duo The Undesirables.). He created a demo package for Jeremy McPherson which landed McPherson a hosting role on The Re-Inventors (History Channel). In Boston, he held the Deck 2 videographer position for Blue Man Group.

Matt founded Busterhouse Productions in 2002 with his wife Tara Samuel, where he edited and scored the short film Find (2006). Find was nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Austin Film Festival and has screened at film festivals all over the world including the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, The Canadian Filmmakers Film Festival, the Short Film Festival of India and New York City's New Filmakers Festival. In Toronto, Matt produced a series of notorious events for Busterhouse called the Aquarius Parties (C'Est What, Canadia Dell'Arte, Vox), which were attended by many of Toronto's finest musicians.

Matt holds an M.F.A from the Massachusetts College of Art where he specialized in AVID production and graduate writing at the very prestigious Studio for Interrelated Media program. He received a Film Studies Certificate and B.A from the University of Massachusetts, with a concentration in Psycho-Analytic theory. He founded the Pioneer Valley Five College Film Festival in Amherst, Massachusetts, which was the first of its kind in the area and is still going strong. In Boston, he competed at the Boston Poetry Slam and sang light opera for a Gilbert and Sullivan troupe. He worked on the production team for Elvis & Marilyn: 2X Immortal at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and stage managed folk music concerts for Songstreet Productions in Somerville. Matt also worked as a tech for Tori Amos, the World Wrestling Federation, and rock band The Cult.

As a songwriter and performer, Matt has frequented the stages of New York (Sidewalk Cafe, CBGB, Rafifi, Matchless), Boston (Club Passim, Cantab) and Toronto (The Drake Hotel, Hard Rock Cafe, The Rivoli). Matt produced two records (Racetracker (2002), Testify (2003). Matt's music was featured on Avril Benoit's Here and Now on CBC Radio. In 2006 Matt formed the band The Black Currents and is scheduling a spring 2008 tour.
- IMDb mini biography by: Matt Flugger