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 on prime time TV, during the Winter Olympics, at the de Young Museum of Art, and at Big Sky Film Festival, the Berlin Commercial Awards, 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 Star, an official nominee at the Berlin Commercial Awards, a two-time AICP nominee, 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, Meta, Jacob Collier/Shawn Mendes & 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