Matthew Greenfield

Matthew Greenfield is the president of Searchlight Pictures,[1] which has produced five Best Picture winners, including Slumdog Millionaire, Birdman, 12 Years a Slave, The Shape of Water, and Nomadland. Greenfield and fellow Searchlight president David Greenbaum started Searchlight Television in 2018.[2]

He joined Searchlight after his tenure as Associate Director of the Feature Film Program at the Sundance Institute.[3]

Prior to his work at Sundance, Greenfield worked as an independent producer, producing Star Maps (film), Chuck & Buck, and The Good Girl, all directed by Miguel Arteta, and the latter two written by Mike White (filmmaker).[4] As the producer of Chuck & Buck, Greenfield won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.[5] He's also the producer of The Motel (film), written and directed by Michael Kang (director). [6]

He co-founded the boutique publishing company Cloverfield Press with Laurence Dumortier.[7] Greenfield studied film at Crossroads School (Santa Monica, California) with Jim Hosney,[8] and at Wesleyan University with Jeanine Basinger.[9] He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two children.