Matt Miller

Matt Miller began his filmmaking career at an early age in the town of Basking Ridge New Jersey. Because he was the only one within his group of friends with a home video camera, when it came to creating school video projects (even for classes he wasn’t in) Matt was elected to direct. And so, at the age of 16, Matt converted his small comic book company, Galactic Comics, to a small independent film company, Galactic Films, and made his first non-school related Short, “Three Hours Till Midnight,” a slasher style horror film.Matt’s next film, “Diamonds,” was an ambitious Goonies style adventure about four down on their luck kids who attempt to change their luck by searching for a hidden diamond mine. Despite being too young to drive, Matt traveled to remote Jersey locations to film his actors jumping off cliffs, running down muddy riverbanks and spelunking through narrow caves.During the next stage in Matt’s filmmaking career he decided he wanted to learn how to tell a story visually, without excessive use of dialogue to give an audience exposition. So Matt decided to take a piece of classical music, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and fabricated a story around the music, creating Rhapsody In School (1999) In the following years while creating other types of films, Matt would create several more of these symphonic shorts: 30th Street Rhapsody (2001) set to Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody, The Game God (2001) Matt’s first short shot on film set to various pieces of classical music, and Soldier's Dance (2001) set to Gioacchino Rossini’s piece with the same title.Before finishing high school Matt created several other imaginative and touching short films (like the teen drama A Love Story (1998) as well as his first feature, Neil Simon's Rumors (2000). Adapting Neil Simon’s play for a high school cast, “Rumors” was shot over a 6 day period of Matt’s spring break during his senior year of high school, shooting with two cameras and a crew of five people.Matt then continued the pursuit of his dreams in Philadelphia where he attended film school at Temple University. Using every opportunity he could to get his hands on school equipment Matt shot more and more ambitious projects like his modern mafia adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Part 1: HAL (2002. During Matt’s junior year at Temple he shot three pieces of a feature musical script he had written “Before Sunset.” The featurettes ( Before Sunset Part 1: I Believe , Part 2: Material Girl , and Part 3: Heaven ) mixed a classical Gene Kelly musical feel with modern pop music.After graduating from Temple University in 2004 Matt made the move to Los Angeles where he began working as an Assistant Director on independent films. Today Matt continues to write and develop future projects for Galactic films. Most recently he has been collaborating with his long time friend Brian Meredith on a short western about Billy the Kid, entitled The Last April which they plan on filming April 2007. Matt continues to carry his goals of creating films the inspire, teach, entertain and touch people of all generations.