Matthew Ryan Hoge
Encyclopedia
Matthew Ryan Hoge is an American writer and film director, known for writing and directing The United States of Leland
(2003).
. He attended Horizon High School, where he participated in the school's theatre program and was introduced to the philosophy of Albert Camus
. Hoge earned a BFA in Writing for Film and Television from the USC School of Cinema-Television
in 1996.
The United States of Leland
The United States of Leland is a 2003 American drama film by director Matthew Ryan Hoge and producer Kevin Spacey about a meek teenaged boy named Leland P. Fitzgerald who has inexplicably committed a shocking murder...
(2003).
Biography
Hoge was raised in the northern Denver suburb of Thornton, ColoradoThornton, Colorado
The city of Thornton is a Home Rule Municipality in Adams and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado and a suburb of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Thornton is northeast of the state's capital, Denver. The United States Census Bureau that the city population...
. He attended Horizon High School, where he participated in the school's theatre program and was introduced to the philosophy of Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
. Hoge earned a BFA in Writing for Film and Television from the USC School of Cinema-Television
USC School of Cinematic Arts
The USC School of Cinematic Arts, until 2006 named the School of Cinema-Television , is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of...
in 1996.