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.
