Resume
DEVIN DIMATTIA
Education:
B.A. with Honors, Film Studies, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 2008
(Minors in English and Computer Science)
Selected Filmography:
The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations" (Director/Editor)
2nd Place Winner! Beach Boys SMiLE Music Video Contest
Fractal Farm - "Bloodless" (Director/Editor/VFX)
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC 2011
Winner! Best New Artist, HearNC Music Video Festival, Carrboro, NC 2011
Beneath the Mask: The Making of 'Superhero' (12 min, Editor)
Comedy Sketch - "Literal Drug Commercial" (2 min, Director/Writer/Actor)
Nearly 70,000 views on YouTube
Featured on I Am Bored, Tastefully Offensive, and StumbleUpon
Firewall of Sound (63 min, Director/Producer/Editor)
CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival, New York City, NC 2010
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC 2010
Winner! Best Independent Film, Encore Magazine 2011
Winner! Best Documentary, Carolina Film and Video Festival, Greensboro, NC 2011
Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Chicago, IL 2011
Echo Park Film Center Microcinema Film Series, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Sled Island Music Festival, Alberta, Canada 2011
Athfest Rock Docs Festival, Athens, GA 2011
Americatown (HD, 80 min, Second Unit Director)
Cucalorus Film Festival (work-in-progress), Wilmington, NC 2009
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL 2010
Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA 2010
Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL 2010
NC Comedy Arts Festival, Raleigh, NC 2010
East Carolina Film Festival, Greenville, NC 2010
Jandek, Chapel Hill Sunday (Videographer, Production Coordinator)
Release date TBD
The Wounded Come Home (HD, 12 min, Assistant Editor)
Cucalorus Film Festival (work-in-progress), Wilmington, NC 2008
Door to Door (10 min, Title Designer)
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC 2008
Firewall of Sound (short version, 15 min, Director/Producer/Editor)
Reel Teal Film Festival, Wilmington, NC 2009
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC 2008
Experience:
2010-2011: Pineapple-Shaped Lamps - Director/Writer/Performer
Wrote, directed and performed in several sketches for the weekly Thursday Night Live comedy production. Also performed, and served as set builder and costume assistant, for an adaptation of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
2009: AnimEigo, Inc. - Post-Production Assistant
Set timing notes and dialogue markers for Japanese films receiving American DVD distribution, including Sleepy Eyes of Death, Black Rain (Kuroi ame), and the Tora-San box set, which was praised by The New York Times.
2008-2009: Cucalorus Film Festival - Programmer/Committee Member
Worked as a festival programmer of feature-length narratives for the internationally recognized film festival.
2008: Cinepartners/Cine Expendable Supply - Intern
Collected and delivered lighting and grip equipment to several Wilmington film productions, including The Secret Life of Bees, One Tree Hill, and The Bleeding.
2007-2008: Flicker Film Society - President
Oversaw general activities within this official student organization, created to provide a platform for aspiring filmmakers to develop skills, preparing them for a possible career in the film industry, utilizing and teaching content that was not always taught in classes in the UNCW Film Studies Department.
2007: Reel Teal Film Festival - Director
Organized, programmed, and exhibited the inaugural year of this annual festival, presented by The Flicker Film Society. Reel Teal just held its third festival in April of 2010.