Matthew Heckerling is an award-winning Director of Photography based in the New York area, with over 15 years of experience spanning feature films, commercials, music videos, documentary series, branded content, and streaming media.

Recent work includes promos for Disney’s Zootopia 2 and Pixar’s Elio, a social campaign for Marvel’s Echo, and multiple documentary series for CNN, including The Story of Late Night, featuring Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien, Amber Ruffin, and Billy Crystal, and The History of the Sitcom, featuring Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Bob Newhart, and Tina Fey. Additional credits include ABC/Hulu’s documentary series The Game Show Show.

Feature film credits include Shadow People, directed by Matthew Arnold and starring Dallas Roberts; The American Standards, featuring Golden Globe winners James Brolin and Joanna Cassidy; and Left in Darkness, produced by Stephen J. Cannell. His cinematography in Hard Scrambled, starring Kurtwood Smith, received the award for Best Cinematography at the Fargo Film Festival.

Matthew holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he received the John F. Seitz Memorial Heritage Award from the American Society of Cinematographers, along with the Bush Memorial Cinematography Scholarship.