Matthew Tan is a documentary filmmaker and researcher. He has a keen interest in film’s potential to produce and represent heritage knowledge in ways that the traditional written word cannot. He is currently working with the HeritageLab to develop Tree Routed, and to produce a feature documentary on the date palm’s global heritage. He is a contributing author of the Dhakira Center for Heritage Studies’ forthcoming edited volume, Re-Emerging Pasts, in which he has written about the street food heritage of George Town, Malaysia. Recent documentary works include Partition (director; Louvre Abu Dhabi 2023), A.I.: African Intelligence (assistant editor; Berlinale 2023), and Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom (assistant editor; Sharjah Biennial 2023). Matthew holds a double BA in Film and Philosophy from NYU Abu Dhabi, and will be pursuing an MSt in Film Aesthetics at the University of Oxford as a Chevening Scholar.