Biography

Matt Marshall is a film lecturer, screenwriter and composer. He teaches Cinema as Art, Film History and Screenwriting. He is a judge for the Virginia Screenwriting Competition through the Virginia Film Office. Several of his selected 1st Round contestants have gone on to win the annual competition. In addition, Marshall has been composing and performing live music to classic silent films for over 20 years with the Virginia Film Festival and other screening venues.  In November 2024, he was named the first Arist in Residence for the Violet Crown Theater, in Charlottesville, VA. He hosts and performs silent film programming there monthly. Marshall has recorded commercial soundtracks for the DVD releases of the British Edition of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (1921) and George Méliès' Conquest of the Pole (1912).