TFI Documentary Fund 2011
Matt’s recent film premiered at Sundance and is airing on HBO. His previous features include Teenage, about the birth of youth culture, and Wild Combination, about cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell.
Radical Communist, counter-cultural television producer, Apple shareholder, and private archivist Marion Stokes captured three decades of television on her VCR. Her expansive project tore her family apart, but it’s now being digitized by the Internet Archive.
(2011 TFI/Insurgent Fellowship)
Teenage is an unconventional historical film about youth culture based on an acclaimed book by the punk author Jon Savage. The film examines the invention of modern teenagers in wartime America with profiles of extraordinary adolescents.