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Matthew Hashiguchi

Cinematographer, Editor, Director, Producer

• About Me

  Matthew Hashiguchi is a recipient of a 2019 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund Award for his documentary, THE ONLY DOCTOR. His first feature-length documentary, GOOD LUCK SOUP, was broadcast nationally on PBS World’s America ReFramed, received a 2016 Documentary Fund Award from the Center for Asian American Media and premiered at the 2016 Cleveland International Film Festival. The GOOD LUCK SOUP project also includes additional transmedia components, a web-based, interactive documentary and a virtual reality documentary that have been presented at film festivals and gallery exhibitions around the world. His documentary shorts have addressed topics such as undocumented immigration (AMERICAN DREAMING, 2018), unexpected experiences in the Japanese American Internment Camps (PEOPLE AREN’T ALL BAD, 2013) and preserving community in post-Katrina New Orleans (THE LOWER 9, 2012) and have screened at many other festivals including the Atlanta Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival and has also been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post. In addition to filmmaking, Matthew is an Assistant Professor in Multimedia Film & Production at Georgia Southern University.