Matt Johnson
Birthday: 1985-10-05
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography: Matt Johnson is a Canadian filmmaker, director, writer, producer, editor, and actor. His work includes his feature film directorial debut, The Dirties (2013), which premiered at Slamdance; his second feature film, Operation Avalanche (2016), which premiered at Sundance; and his third feature film, BlackBerry (2023), which premiered at the Berlinale before winning several Canadian Screen Awards in 2024. He is also co-creator of the cult comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show (2017). As an actor, he has appeared Kazik Radwanska's film Anne at 1,300 Feet (2019) and Matt and Mara (2024).
Movies
The Revenge Plot
After Matt and his friends are dissed in the schoolyard by a group of girls, they set to work on an ...
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Diamond Tongues
Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't...
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Cosmotive Inc.
Malcolm hosts a promotional video for Cosmotive Inc., the cosmetic company he works for. During the ...
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Operation Avalanche
In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they d...
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel b...
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The Dirties
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about...
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BlackBerry
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsi...
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Matt Johnson Live at Comic-Con
In a short sketch produced for Funny or Die, Matt Johnson reports live on the scene in the 2013 Comi...
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The Heirloom
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees t...
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Matt and Mara
Mara is a young creative writing professor struggling with problems in her marriage to an experiment...
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Spice It Up
A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project....
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How Heavy This Hammer
Follows a middle-aged married man who finds his only outlet is online gaming....
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Anne at 13,000 Ft.
Anne hasn't been the same since the jump. While skydiving for her best friend Sarah's bachelorette p...
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Nirvanna The Band - Mega64 Special
Nirvanna The Band are the official convention hall announcers for 64X 2023 (Mega64 Expo). We present...
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Update Day
From the original 2006-2009 web series, Matt and Jay make a song based on the titles from the Wii sh...
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The Fantastic Corpse
The Fantastic Corpse is a short film project based on the exquisite corpse collaborative method. Del...
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Nicky Nicky Nine-Door
Deleted scene from Nirvanna the Band the Show. Nicky Nicky Nine Doors up and down the Scarborough Bl...
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The Alex Leyba Movie II
Alex Leyba, a passionate but struggling young filmmaker, finds himself homeless and trying to reconc...
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Operation Avalanche
Achieving viral success after being snuck into the Sundance Film Festival, this short film features ...
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