Join us for an intimate, in-person event conversation and Q&A with Oscar-winning filmmaker Matthew Cherry. This is an in-person event open to the public. Appetizers and beverages will be served.
About Matthew Cherry
Academy Award winning filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry is a Chicago native and a former NFL wide receiver who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers and the Baltimore Ravens.
In 2007, Cherry retired and moved to LA to pursue a career in entertainment landing work initially as a production assistant for commercials and music videos before transitioning to being a Set PA for the final season of the hit CW TV series “Girlfriends” and the third season of “Heroes” for NBC.
In television, Matthew has also directed multiple episodes of television, including ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” “Black-ish”, and “The Wonder Years”, Peacock TV’s “Bel-Air”, “Saved By The Bell” , Apple’s “Swagger” and more.
Cherry also served as an executive producer on the Academy Award®-nominated film “BlackKklansman” from Spike Lee while working as a creative executive at Jordan Peele’s production company, MonkeyPaw Productions.
Cherry’s latest project "Hair Love" is an animated short film about an African American father attempting to do his daughters hair for the first time. The short, which made its theatrical debut in August 2019 with Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Angry Birds Movie 2,” won the Academy Award in 2020 for Best Animated Short Film and has an accompanying picture book which is a six time New York Times Bestseller.
Most recently Cherry released the “Hair Love” spin off animated television series “Young Love” starring Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Issa Rae, Loretta Devine, Harry Lennox, Tamar Braxton, Sheryl Lee Ralph and more Young Love is currently streaming on Max.