Matthew Temple (filmmaker)

Temple was born in Los Angeles, CA, where he lived until the age of nine, when his father was offered a job in Denver, CO. Four years later he moved to San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, then Cullowhee, NC, Santa Rosa, CA, and Goettingen, Germany before graduating from Summerfield Waldorf School in 1995. After high school, Temple formed an a cappella group, Voicewell, and spent the following spring and summer hitchhiking through Europe. At the age of 19, he had a daughter and chose to postpone college.

In 2001, Temple wrote and produced his first feature film, Senses of Place, while still an undergraduate at Marlboro College. Shot on super 16mm film, the film went on to play at several film festivals, winning a Remi Award at WorldFest Houston and Best of the Fest at the Lake Placid Film Forum and was eventually distributed by FilmBuff. Temple received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Marlboro College. In 2006, he returned to Los Angeles and shortly after was cast in his first feature film, Animals, with Naveen Andrews, Marc Blucas and Nicki Aycox.

In 2007, Temple began working with producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, as part of the musical team and music supervisor on The American Mall, an MTV co-production, and First Love: It's the Music, a Columbia Pictures local language production in Russia. He also associate produced the latter. In 2010 Temple was cast in Jonah Hex with Josh Brolin and went on to star in Chillerama with Joel David Moore and Kane Hodder. He also appeared in L.A. Paranormal, 8213: Gacy House, an Asylum Picture, and Crescendo by Alonso Alvarez Barredo.

Temple served as VP of Production and Development for Mili Pictures, in Santa Monica, CA. He has produced several independent feature films, including, The Advocate, directed by Tamas Harangi, the genre thriller Caged with Edi Gathegi, Melora Hardin and Angela Sarafyan, directed by Aaron Fjellman. In 2019 Vertical Entertainment released his documentary feature film, Hardball: The Girls of Summer. In January, 2021, Shout! Factory released Caged.

In 2018, Temple got rid of his belongings and moved to Kenya with his fiancée. He is the founder of the non-profit organization NetworkM, now called WeStrive.org

• Avoiding Post Production Catastrophe
• Senses of Place Interview

• Matthew Temple at IMDb
• Official Website