Cambria Matlow – Why Dig When You Can Pluck
Cambria Matlow is a film director, writer and editor based in Portland, OR. In moody storyworlds that disrupt and discomfort, Matlow uses the mirror of nature to illuminate fractured identities, broken systems and complicated relationships.
Why Dig When You Can Pluck (2024) marks her writer/director narrative debut and premiered in competition at BAFICI in Argentina. The film went on to win Best Pacific Northwest Feature at Tacoma Film Festival and was nominated for Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography awards from NewFilmmakers LA.
An IFP Documentary Lab Fellow, Southern Circuit Tour Fellow and winner of Oregon Film + Playa’s Screenwriting Award, her Jury and Audience award-winning documentaries No More Dope Parties (2019), Woodsrider (2017) and Burning In the Sun (2010) have been selected for IFP’s Independent Film Week, broadcast on Al Jazeera and PBS, and screened in festivals and cinemas worldwide including New York’s Lincoln Center, Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival and the Portland Art Museum.
Matlow’s films have been described as “hauntingly beautiful” and “patiently devastating” by Willamette Week and ”relaxing and contemplative” by the Los Angeles Times. BAFICI proclaims: “Matlow dares to whisper storms.”
She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at University of California, Riverside, focusing on Screenwriting.
