I am a creative professional with more than 18 years of hands-on experience in management, video production, editing, and theater. Adobe Creative Cloud Certified with a growing body of independent film work in writing, directing, cinematography, and editing. I’m passionate about storytelling, collaborative creativity, and purpose-driven media.

Matthew Kingston

I am a creative professional with more than 18 years of hands-on experience in management, video production, editing, and theater. Adobe Creative Cloud Certified with a growing body of independent film work in writing, directing, cinematography, and editing. I’m passionate about storytelling, collaborative creativity, and purpose-driven media.

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I am a creative professional with more than 18 years of hands-on experience in management, video production, editing, and theater. Adobe Creative Cloud Certified with a growing body of independent film work in writing, directing, cinematography, and editing.

I’m passionate about storytelling, collaborative creativity, and purpose-driven media.

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Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Graphic Designer at EPI
March 1, 2024 - Present
Graphic design services for client projects, branding, and marketing collateral; collaborated with clients to translate concepts into digital assets; utilized Adobe Creative Cloud.
Screen Printer at Custom Ink
January 1, 2019 - February 1, 2024
Managed screen printing operations for custom apparel, maintained presses, ensured color accuracy and quality control; collaborated with production team.
General Manager at Papa Johns
April 1, 2010 - January 1, 2019
Overseeing store operations, staff scheduling, customer service, inventory management, and profitability.
Volunteer/Technical Director at Patty Granville Performing Arts Center
May 1, 2006 - June 1, 2010
Volunteer/Technical Director responsible for supporting productions, stage management, and technical oversight.

Education

Advanced Audio/Visual Certification Program at Northlake College
August 18, 2025 - April 27, 2027
Certification complete. Pursuing BFA for film studies.

Qualifications

Adobe Creative Cloud Certified
January 11, 2023 - January 11, 2033

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services
    paper Quiet hours

    Official selection for best feature script, LA Fantasy festival. Quiet Hours follows Molly, a young woman shaped by cult violence, neglect, and obsessive rules, as she attempts to impose order on her fractured inner life through ritual and control. Convinced she’s following a higher design, she abducts Lewis, an emotionally vacant loner, who seems perfectly suited to disappear without consequence.
    As days pass in enforced closeness, Molly’s certainty erodes. Lewis is not afraid, not pleading, and not behaving like a victim. Instead, he reflects her own emptiness back at her, destabilizing the rituals meant to keep her safe. Therapy sessions, childhood memories, and fractured loyalties blur together as the line between captor and captive dissolves. In the end, Quiet Hours becomes less about violence than about two broken people circling the same questions: can meaning exist without cruelty, and whether silence is safety or surrender.

    paper Michael hung himself

    Michael Hung Himself unfolds in the hours and days surrounding loss, moving between group chats, phone calls, memories, and fractured conversations as a group of longtime friends try to make sense of something that refuses to make sense.
    Through dark humor, shared history, and moments of raw honesty, the story examines how grief splinters differently for everyone: guilt disguised as anger, love hidden behind jokes, and the impossible desire to rewrite the past. Rather than offering answers, Michael Hung Himself sits with the discomfort of unfinished sentences and unanswered texts, exploring how people carry the dead forward while still learning how to stay alive themselves.