Booker T. Mattison
Booker T. Mattison is an award-winning writer and director whose films have screened at the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The Director’s Guild of America and the Black American Cinema Society in Hollywood, Aaron Davis Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, at Harvard University, and internationally as well. He is the recipient of the prestigious Warner Brothers Pictures Production Award, the Entertainment Weekly Post-Production Award, and the Spike Lee Fellowship. He has served as a producer at Metropolitan Media, Inc., a script consultant at The Writer’s Workshop, and has conducted film adaptation workshops on college campuses. His film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s classic short story, The Gilded Six Bits, was televised nationally on the Showtime cable network’s 9th Annual Black Filmmaker Showcase and was recognized as the best film featured by the Hollywood Reporter. Mattison earned a Master of Fine Arts in film from New York University and a bachelor of science in mass communications from Norfolk State University.
