Bio

Matthew LaPaglia (he/they) is a filmmaker and writer. His work explores art practice as a historiographical tool, interrogating where memory and identity coalesce with(in) collective narratives. His hybrid documentary, From a Spaceless Within, had its world premiere at Hot Docs in 2022, and he is the co-writer of The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry, which was selected for the 2023 Quinzaine des cinéastes (Directors’ Fortnight) at Cannes. Born and raised outside of Syracuse, LaPaglia received a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University, where he studied history, and earned his MFA from Emerson College in Boston. He currently lives in New England and works in nonfiction film funding.