Matt Amato

Matt Amato is a director and co-founder with Heath Ledger in the Los Angeles based visual arts collective, The Masses. Amato has directed music videos for a wide range of artists including: Beach House, Bon Iver, Barbra Streisand, Wild Nothing and many other influential artists. Amato returned to his hometown of St. Louis to write and direct his first feature, Never My Love, starring Sheryl Lee, Grace Zabriskie and Jay R. Ferguson. The critically acclaimed romantic drama will have its official release in 2021. "Amato is a radical filmmaker, willing to make a movie that travels like a river, or unfolds like a piece of music or a real human life, something that seems alien after we've slumped in theater seats, over-dazzling our retinas with exploding cars and exploding planets. He realizes the transformative power of seeing-and not seeing. Of showing the full spectrum of a full human life, with a slice hidden in shadow. That unsettled, mysterious place makes room for the watcher but throws down the challenge to do more than just watch. Is this is a particle, or a wave? it asks. Who are you? What's in your pockets? And what do you see?"