Matthew Barton

Director

Matthew Barton's award winning independent work deals with themes of humanity, adversity and the visceral. His work has screened internationally with Sit and Watch (2016), awarded best mid-length film at Visions du Réel and was selected as part of the prestigious Clermont Ferrand Film Festival. His most recent short film Box which details the impending eviction of the Calais Jungle shown through the prism of the camp's boxing club, premiered at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2019.