Virtual Chat on SXSW Short Film "Dirty" with Matthew Puccini '16 and Richie Jackson '87
From April 27 - May 6, select SXSW 2020 Film Collection films will be streaming for free on Amazon. Join us on Tuesday May 5, 2020 from 6 -7 pm EST for a talkback with the Director and Producer of Dirty, SXSW film and recipient of a Special Jury Award for Acting.
Created by Matthew Puccini '16 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and executive produced by Richie Jackson '87 (BFA, Drama), Dirty tells the story of two young men and an afternoon that does not go as planned. Watch on Amazon here.
Congratulations to the full crew of Tisch alumni who worked on this film!
Dirty (United States)
Matthew Puccini '16 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Director/Producer/Writer
Richie Jackson '87 (BFA, Drama), Executive Producer
Cecilia Delgado '13 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Producer
Jeremy Truong '18 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) Producer
Matt Mitchell '08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Cinematographer
William C. Sullivan '10 (BFA, Drama), Editor
Arjun G. Sheth '11 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), Sound Designer
Matthew Puccini '16 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV)
Matthew is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His short film Dirty premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Award for Acting. His short film Lavender premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was acquired by Searchlight Pictures for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run and was nominated for Vimeo’s Best Drama of 2019.
Matthew is a 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a member of the 2017 New York Film Festival Artist Academy and a Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film and as one of Indiewire’s 25 LGBTQ Filmmakers On The Rise. He is currently developing his first feature film.
Richie Jackson '87 (BFA, Drama)
Richie Jackson is the author of Gay Like Me, published by HarperCollins. He is an award-winning Broadway, television and film producer who most recently produced the Tony Award-nominated Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song on Broadway. He executive produced Showtime’s Nurse Jackie (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for “Best Comedy Series”) for seven seasons and co-executive produced the film Shortbus, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
As an alumnus of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, he endowed a fellowship program at his alma mater in 2015 to assist graduates in the transition from academia to a lifelong career in the arts called The Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship.
He and his husband, Jordan Roth, were honored with The Trevor Project’s 2016 Trevor Hero Award. They live in New York City with their two sons.