Final Draft – “From NYU to destroying worlds: Big Break Winner Matthew Manson”
“Gaby Guffner: Destroyer of Worlds writer Matthew Manson celebrated his Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest® win with his family — and a bottle of Trader Joe’s bubbly.”
Deadline – “The Black List, 1in4 & WGAW Disabled Writers Committee Select Finalists For 2024 Disability List” Deadline – “Disability Belongs Reveals New Virtual Cohort Participants For 2025 Entertainment Lab” Indiewire – “Watch: Rising Star David Bloom Is a ‘Wannabe’ Cool Kid in This New Trailer” New York Press – “Jewish Kid Grows Up on Upper West Side” Movie Maker Magazine / New Filmmakers LA – Interview with Wannabe Writer & Director Matthew Manson Heyman Hustle – “How “Wannabe” Stole The Tribeca Film Festival” Paste Magazine – “Scrolling Go90” Digital Bolex – “Tribeca’s Wannabe Brilliantly Evokes Coming of Age in the 90’s” The Independent Critic – “”Wannabe” Headed for Life as a Feature Film” The Fan Club – “Matthew Manson Interview” MyNewYorkEYE – Interview The Young Folks – “Matthew Manson at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival”
“Ten screenplays have been selected by the 1IN4 Coalition (1IN4), the WGAW Disabled Writers Committee and the Black List for the 2024 Disability List.”
“Disability Belongs…has announced a new virtual cohort of participants for its 2025 Entertainment Lab.”
“Tribeca winner Matthew Manson takes you on a coming-of-age story that will make you swoon.”
“(Wannabe) is a testament to friendship, love and self-acceptance told from the perspective of two adolescents caught in the whirlwind of racial turmoil far beyond their control or understanding”
“Filmmaker Spotlight on Matthew Manson, the unbelievably talented writer/director of the short “Wannabe” which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.”
Tribeca interview with writer/director Matthew Manson, co-producer John Ramos, and actors David Bloom & Chaize Macklin.
Review of “Hacking High School,” show-run by Matthew Manson. Called “sharp, smart, punchy comedy [which] feel[s] groundbreaking”
Interview with Writer / Director Matthew Manson and DP Catherine Goldschmidt
A- Review of writer/director Matthew Manson’s film: “A warm and winning film about friendship, self-acceptance and what it means to come of age in a most transcendent way, Wannabe is the kind of film that leaves you wanting more. Fortunately, more is on the way.”
Red Carpet Interview With Writer / Director Matthew Manson
Wannabe called a “must-see” in this Interview with Writer / Director Matthew Manson and star Chaize Macklin
Red Carpet Interview with Writer / Director Matthew Manson