Matt De Sousa is an award-winning ENG/JP bilingual cinematographer and documentary filmmaker based in Sydney, Australia. Originally from Melbourne, he began his filmmaking career after moving to Tokyo, Japan to study on a language scholarship. Initially juggling freelance work as a travel writer and music photographer, he eventually landed on Japanese film sets as a cinematographer. Guided by an appetite for the weird and wonderful, Matt found himself working on a wide range of short and long-form documentaries for companies including Netflix, NHK and VICE, spanning subjects from traditional Japanese tattooing, to international criminal cases, to an intimate portrait of rockstar Gene Simmons of KISS.
His most recent feature documentary project, ‘Tokito: The 540-day Journey of a Culinary Maverick’, filmed in Japan over two years, had its Australian premiere in 2025 at the Sydney Film Festival, and was recently awarded Gold in the Documentary category at the Australian Cinematographer Society NSW branch awards.
Mattはオーストラリア出身の撮影監督で、現在は東京とシドニーで活動している。
シナリオ映画、TVCM、ドキュメンタリーなど幅広い撮影経験を持つ。
日本語/英語バイリンガル。
Matt is available for short or long-form documentary, narrative and commercial projects.
All enquiries: contact@mattdesousa.com
