# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-porterfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:28:34.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-porterfield"
name: "Matthew Porterfield"
slug: "matthew-porterfield"
description: "Matthew \"Matt\" Porterfield is an American independent filmmaker. He has made four feature films to date, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), I Used to Be Darker (2013) and Sollers Point (2017). Putty Hill and I Used to Be Darker had their international premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival. All of his features have had their local premieres at the Maryland Film Festival."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Porterfield_-_Maryland_Film_Festival_-_2016_(30354425543)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.18
  momentum:             1.063829787234043
  historical:           5.274154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275041/"
    handle:    "nm2275041"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Porterfield"
    title: "Matthew Porterfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ماثيو پورتيرفيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%DB%86_%D9%BE%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8E%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%DA%B5%D8%AF"
    title: "ماتیۆ پۆرتێرفیڵد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Porterfield"
    title: "Matthew Porterfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Porterfield"
    title: "Matthew Porterfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15623582"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/223330"
    title: "Matthew Porterfield"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump