Booker T. Mattison is a writer and filmmaker.

He wrote the screen adaptation of the Zora Neale Hurston short story “The Gilded Six Bits” and directed the film that aired on the Showtime Cable Network. His films have screened at the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, The Directors Guild of America and Harvard University. He has written and directed music videos for the two-time Grammy Award nominated Christian rap group The Cross Movement, Christian R&B artist J.R. and Christian rapper Flame. His music videos have been in rotation on Black Entertainment Television, MTV Europe, The Gospel Music Channel, and Trinity Broadcasting Network.

He ghost wrote sections of the book Food for the Soul: Recipes and Stories from the Congregation of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church published by One World/Ballantine in October 2005.  He was a contributing writer for I’ll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities published by Amistad Press/Harper Collins in November 2004. He is the author of Unsigned Hype slated for a Summer '09 release.

Also a Certified Radio Marketing Professional, he sold more than one million dollars of advertising in less than two years at WMCA 570 & 970 AM in New York.  

Mattison received his Master of Fine Arts in film from New York University and his Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Norfolk State University.

He is married and the proud father of four precocious children.