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'Matthew's classwork has been of an excellent standard this term, reaching Level 2 in both Reading and Maths, and yet his progress is being hindered by his constant chatter with those around him. Having started the year extremely positively, he has become increasingly less focused on his work and more and more preoccupied with playtime.'

A Londoner of mixed British and Indian descent, Matt Houghton is an multi-award-winning filmmaker who makes films about outsiders and the unheard. His work experiments with form, often treading the line between fact and fiction. Matt’s most recent short film co-directed with the film's protagonist Georgie Wileman is an intimate, self-documented portrait of a photographer living with endometriosis. This Is Endometriosis won the 2026 BAFTA for Best Short Film and was nominated for a 2025 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Short. His short film Landline won the 2018 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Short and his first short Dear Araucaria, made in partnership with the Guardian, won the Audience Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015. The following year, Matt released two more shorts, Four Weddings, his second film made with the Guardian, and Hands Up, Chin Down which had its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018. Matt's film, Earth To Cop is a found-footage, eyewitness portrait of climate change and screened for 140 world leaders at the COP26 opening ceremony to inspire climate action.

Matt is a founding member of Fee Fie Foe and an associate producer on Notes On Blindness, The Real Charlie Chaplin and the Netflix Original feature Apollo Thirteen: Survival. Most recently, he produced Murewa, directed by Ché Scott-Heron Newton, which premiered at SXSW 2025 and was longlisted for Best Short at the BIFA Awards 2025. Matt is currently in post-production on his debut feature, With A Gun And A Radio.