Matt Landfield, Founder, Filmmaker

A native New Yorker, Matt Landfield is a director and cinematographer for narrative, documentary and interactive content including film, video, and live broadcasting. He is a Co-Founder of TimeTravlr Creative. Matt has shot and directed documentary work for the United Nations Global Compact, the Associated Press, Jazz at Lincoln Center and 3Generations, among many other clients. He has also produced and directed documentary-based work for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Toyota, and nonprofits and philanthropies including the William G. McGowan Fund and The JM Kaplan Fund. The From the Ground Up documentary series about community development in Brownsville, Brooklyn that he conceived and developed for JPMorgan Chase won the 2015 Contently Award. Recently, Matt Landfield directed and produced the feature documentary Educating Leaders in an Uncertain World: The McGowan Fellowship, which received a silver award at the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards. 

Landfield’s cinematography work also includes the narrative short films Plot, winner of best mockumentary at the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, and Consider the Sparrow, nominated for best short at New York Shorts International Film Festival and winner of best lighting at the Nomadic International Film Festival.

He most recently shot the documentary Here Lived (2024) for 3Generations, and is currently directing and producing Private Money Public Power, a documentary about the history of philanthropy in the United States.