Matthieu Taponier

Matthieu Taponier is a Franco-American screenwriter, script consultant and film editor.

After studying Modern Literature in Paris, he completed an MFA in filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a script consultant, he received training at the TorinoFilmLab’s Script&Pitch program and has been tutoring since in workshops such as the Critic’s Week Next Step, “Next Step”, DFI’s “Hezayah Screenwriting Lab” and Le Groupe Ouest.

He collaborated as a script and film editor on “Son of Saul” by László Nemes (Grand Prix Cannes 2015, Golden Globe, Oscar and BAFA 2016 Best Foreign Language Film); as a co-writer and film editor on Nemes’ second feature “Sunset” (FIPRESCI Venice 2018); as an editor on “Adventures of a Mathematician” by Thorsten Klein (Palm Springs 2020); as a script and film editor on “Beginning” by Dea Kulumbegashvili (Cannes 2020, FIPRESCI TIFF 2020, Golden Shell San Sebastian 2020).