Matthew Ross is an American film director, screenwriter, and journalist based in Brooklyn. He is best known for writing and directing Frank & Lola, which debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was later released by Universal Studios.
Ross made his feature-length debut as writer-director with Frank & Lola (2016), a "psychosexual noir love story" starring Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Michael Nyqvist, Justin Long, Emmanuelle Devos, and Rosanna Arquette. The film made its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where the critical reaction was overwhelmingly positive, including a 4-star review in The Guardian. Two days after its first public screening, Universal acquired worldwide rights to Frank & Lola, and released the film theatrically and on VOD later that year.
His other writing and directing work includes the festival shorts Lola (2006), Red Angel (2007), and Curtis and Clover (2001); the 2010 viral video Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis (2010), commissioned by Ellis and Random House, commissioned by Ellis and Random House and described by film critic Roger Ebert described as "one terrific video"; as well as more than 50 episodes of FIGHT! Life, an online documentary series about professional fighters, which has logged over 6 million YouTube views.
Ross was a story consultant for Larry David's HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), including contributing plotlines to the DGA award-winning episode "Palestinian Chicken", which Vanity Fair called "the crowing achievement of the entire series." He has also written and rewritten screenplays for Anonymous Content, Radical Studios, Palmstar Entertainment, Sundial Pictures, and Infinity Media, among other companies.