Matthew A. Cherry

Matthew A. Cherry is an American film director, writer, producer, and former American football player. He wrote and directed two independent films, The Last Fall (2012), and 9 Rides (2016), and is currently an executive at Monkeypaw Productions. He is best known for the animated short film, Hair Love, which was picked up by Sony Pictures Animation in March 2019 for distribution. The Kickstarter campaign for Hair Love raised over $200,000 and broke the record for the highest amount raised for any short film on the platform.

Works

The Last Fall

An NFL journeyman struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over.

Release Date: 2012-03-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

The Come Up

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Redd Zone

A single mother steps forward to help her sons and their high school football teammates heal after the murder of their best friend.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Young Love

The Young family – millennial parents Stephen and Angela, their daughter Zuri and her pet cat Rocky – juggle careers, marriage, parenthood, social issues and multi-generational dynamics while striving to make a better life for themselves.

Release Date: 2023-09-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 13

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

Release Date: 2023-05-31

Department: Production

Job: Production Consultant

Vote Count: 7324

Abbott Elementary

In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do — even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

Release Date: 2021-12-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 195

Ghosts

Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.

Release Date: 2021-10-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 213

The Wonder Years

A coming of age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the point-of-view of imaginative 12 year-old Dean. With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and humorous recollections show how his family found their “wonder years” in a turbulent time. Inspired by the classic series of the same name.

Release Date: 2021-09-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 201

Saved by the Bell

When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the over privileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality.

Release Date: 2020-11-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 115

mixed-ish

Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves.

Release Date: 2019-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 49

The Unicorn

A tight-knit group of best friends and family helps Wade embrace his “new normal” in the wake of the loss of his wife. As a sometimes ill-equipped but always devoted single parent to his two adolescent daughters, he is taking the major step of dating again.

Release Date: 2019-09-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 35

Hair Love

When dad has to unexpectedly step in for mom to do his daughter Zuri’s hair before a big event, what seems like a simple task is anything but as these locks have a mind of their own!

Release Date: 2019-08-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 466

The Red Line

A heart-in-your-throat drama, Red Line begins with the mistaken shooting of a black doctor at the hands of a white cop and unfolds from the perspective of each of the families connected to the tragedy. It's a then-and-now meets us-and-them tale about the often-personal politics of crime.

Release Date: 2019-04-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 27

Whiskey Cavalier

Following an emotional breakup, tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase (codename: “Whiskey Cavalier”) is assigned to work with badass CIA operative Frankie Trowbridge (codename: “Fiery Tribune”). Together, they lead an inter-agency team of flawed, funny and heroic spies who periodically save the world (and each other) while navigating the rocky roads of friendship, romance and office politics.

Release Date: 2019-02-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 167

BlacKkKlansman

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Release Date: 2018-08-09

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7587

9 Rides

An Uber driver gets word that his fiancé might be cheating on him on New Years Eve and proceeds to give nine different groups of people rides and they influence his decision on how he handles the situation.

Release Date: 2016-03-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Tut

An Afro-furistic, coming-of-age story of the boy King Tutankhamun. The film will take audiences on a journey through Ancient Egypt and celebrate a culture that introduced the world to countless modern conventions and technologies.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Young Sheldon

The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

Release Date: 2017-09-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2637

black-ish

A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

Release Date: 2014-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 302

The Daily Show

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

Release Date: 1996-07-22

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 551

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

Release Date: 1953-03-19

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 65