Matt Nadel is a documentary filmmaker and journalist from Florida, now based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is focused on law, historical memory, gender, and sexuality. His most recent film, “CANS Can’t Stand” (2023), follows a group of Black trans women who are fighting to repeal Louisiana’s controversial Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law. Matt’s work has been distributed by The New Yorker and the New York Times, featured on Vimeo Staff Picks and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and screened at film festivals across the world.