Matthew Greenfield

{{short description|American film producer}}

{{distinguish|text=Matt Greenfield, co-founder of ADV Films}}

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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| alma_mater = Wesleyan University

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| spouse = Laurence Dumortier

| parents = Patricia Marks Greenfield

| relatives = Lauren Greenfield (sister)

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Matthew Greenfield is the president of Searchlight Pictures,{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/searchlight-pictures-exec-transition-steve-gilula-david-greenbaum-matthew-greenfield-promoted-to-president-1234740421/|title=Searchlight Pictures Exec Transition: Steve Gilula & Nancy Utley Retiring; David Greenbaum & Matthew Greenfield Promoted to Presidents|date=20 April 2021}} which has produced five Academy Awards for 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/557504/searchlight-television.html|title=Searchlight Launches New TV Division That Will Produce Original Shows And Adaptations Of Movies|date=12 April 2018}}

He joined Searchlight after his tenure as Associate Director of the Feature Film Program at the Sundance Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmindependent.org/people/matthew-greenfield/|title=Matthew Greenfield}}

Prior to his work at Sundance, Greenfield worked as an independent producer, producing Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, and The Good Girl, all directed by Miguel Arteta, and the latter two written by Mike White.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/fox-searchlight-executives-disney-fox-merger/|title=Can the Scrappy Fox Searchlight Execs Who Green-Lit The Shape of Water Survive Inside Disney?|date=14 December 2017}} As the producer of Chuck & Buck, Greenfield won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/awards-history.php?cat-id=spirit_john_cassavetes_award|title=Independent Spirit Awards - John Cassavetes Award}} He's also the producer of The Motel, written and directed by Michael Kang. {{Cite web|url=https://film-forward.com/history/themotel.html|title=Review:The Motel|date=28 June 2006}}

He co-founded the boutique publishing company Cloverfield Press with Laurence Dumortier.{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/small-press-is-beautiful/|title=SMALL PRESS IS BEAUTIFUL|date=2 June 2005}} Greenfield studied film at Crossroads School with Jim Hosney,{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-27-et-hosney27-story.html|title=Reel life was his real love|date=27 June 2007}} and at Wesleyan University with Jeanine Basinger.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2008/biz/markets-festivals/students-and-peers-praise-basinger-1117983033/|title=Students and peers praise Basinger|date=27 March 2008}} He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two children.