Matt Barse (Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) is an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma with a major in Integrative Studies and minor in Film Media Studies. He also received a Certificate of Mastery in Digital Cinema Production from Oklahoma City Community College.

His work encompasses both narrative fiction and documentary with recent projects centering on horror and sci-fi. Over the last ten years, he has written, directed, and edited eight shorts and one feature. Fiction short films include Lovely Day (2012), a drama about an estranged couple, Epilogue (2020), a horror/thriller featuring a young woman haunted by her troubled past, and Distance (2023), a pandemic drama with an emphasis on the undead.