CHRISTELLE MATOU is a Parisian native with roots from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. She earned her Master of Fine Arts for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She started her production design career on a Sci-fi short film THE MAILBOX directed by Louis Yin and selected in the 2018 Berlin Sci-fi FilmFest and 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival. She pursued her work on The Spike Lee Production Fund Grant, short film CRACKED (2021 Tribeca Film Festival selection, MAX)directed by Project Greenlight Director and Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow Lin Que Ayoung. She designed on many other critically acclaimed short films such as THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR directed by Abbesi Akhamie, (The Criterion Channel).She renewed her collaboration with Akhamie on a Pan-African Futuristic short soon to be released. Christelle’s work includes her production design on the narrative feature WHAT WE DO NEXT, directed by Stephen Belber (Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video). She also production designed on the short film REUNION (American Airlines In-Flight Entertainment) directed by Zainab Jah winner of the 2023 Urban World Film Festival Best Female Director and Tim Naylor . Christelle expanded her production design to Horror films, working with French Directors Nicolas Polixene and Sylvain Loubet on short film CUT ME IF YOU CAN (2023), selected in over 30 festivals in the world including 2023 SCAD Savannah Film Festival and 2024 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. For this work, Christelle received Best Production Design nod at the Horrorhound Film Festival 2024. Most recently, Christelle designed on the French feature film FRACTURE INVISIBLE directed by Jean-Michel Loutoby, now in post-production.

Christelle is a member of the Production Designers Collective, an organization made up of 1300 Production Designers across 35 countries dedicated to mutual support through sharing knowledge, encouragement and experience. She has taught Design|Film Production at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and continues to be a regular mentor in the Design Program.

Christelle’s Film credits as Costume Designer include A Lullaby To Love, Confidence, Splashes of Dye, and Kashmir. Christelle’s work for Stage include Theatre, Concerts, Dance productions and Opera such as The 2021 Glimmerglass Festival’s productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Offenbach’s Songbird (La Périchole). More recently, Christelle designed the costumes for the 2023 Nashville Symphony new opera The Jonah People: A Legacy of Struggle and Triumph composed by Hannibal Lokumbe.

Represented by PARADIGM

I.A.T.S.E. USA Local 829