FLYPAPER

Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence + Megan Trufant Tillman are a filmmaking duo hailing from New Orleans and Honolulu known as FLYPAPER. Their distinctive voice draws on their backgrounds in music and theater to compose tender cinematic portraits that explore the vast inner worlds of subjects who are rarely seen on screen. Their films are distinguished by lyrical visual language, intimate character portraiture, lush cinematography, and original scores composed by Tillman – who is also half of jazz/hip-hop outfit Magna Carda. Their duo directorial debut, NEWBIES, premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it received the Texas Short Competition Special Jury Award. The duo also recently debuted PERMANENT (2025), a short documentary film on the visionary American painter Noah Davis, as part of the traveling exhibition NOAH DAVIS at the Barbican Centre in London and the Hammer Museum in LA.