Matt Grady

Production

Matt Grady

Matt Grady is an American producer, actor, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of independent production and distribution company Factory 25.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Palookaville poster
6.0

Grand Jury Award Winner - Slamdance 2023 Jury's notes: “With idiosyncratic music choices, sibling chemistry out the wazoo, and a philosophical Brooklynite as the series lead (played by Howard Lester in his introductory role), Theodore Collatos’s Palookaville explores the surreal existence of JoJo, a man victimized by a random act of violence who now thinks he’s the famous defunct boxer/anti-fascist, Joe Louis. Will you believe that JoJo’s become the Brown Bomber? Doesn’t matter, because you will believe in Palookaville.”

Palookaville

2023

Vulcanizadora poster
6.3

Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.

Vulcanizadora

2025

Inspector Ike poster
6.5

After the conniving understudy of an avant-garde theater group knocks off the star actor, he finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with Inspector Ike, New York City's Greatest Police Detective.

Inspector Ike

2020

Summer of Blood poster
4.8

Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.

Summer of Blood

2014

Queen of Lapa poster
10.0

Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil’s most recognizable transgender personalities, shapes a new reality for a new generation of transgender sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, quests for love, housemate rivalries in a turbulent political climate under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.

Queen of Lapa

2019

The Great Pretender poster
5.0

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically.

The Great Pretender

2018

Abby Singer/Songwriter poster
9.0

A has-been New York rock-star teams up with a wannabe filmmaker to destroy hipster culture in New York... if they don't destroy each other first.

Abby Singer/Songwriter

2015

John Wesley Harding: Don't Look Back Now - The Film poster
5.0

Filmed with four cameras, over two shows at Union Hall, Brooklyn, on October 27th, 2008, this film is especially for those of you who miss the live experience: the sweat, the proximity, the forgotten lyrics. This is far better than a Zoom show with me sitting at my desk: it looks and sounds beautiful. It’s what you really want to see (as opposed to being the only thing we can bring you) and it’s the absolute closest thing to being at one of my shows. And - as luck would have it - I’m playing all your favorite songs. How do I know? Because we asked you to choose the setlist way back then, and you did.

John Wesley Harding: Don't Look Back Now - The Film

2021

Galaxie 500: Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste poster
7.8

Prepare to rock out with this extensive compilation of live performance footage, television appearances and music videos of alternative Boston rockers Galaxie 500, who specialized in moody rock dirges in the late 1980s. Included are performances at the Middle East in Cambridge, Mass. (featuring previously unreleased material "Back in Your Life" and "Buzz in My Head"), the Kennel Club in San Francisco and Club Lingerie in Hollywood.

Galaxie 500: Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste

2004