Matyas Erdely is a cinematographer based out of Budapest, Hungary. 

He has completed both the Hungarian University of Drama and Film in Budapest and the Masters Program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles. He started to shoot commercials while he was still in film school for high profile agencies and clients between narrative projects. His narrative works were screened at several hundred film festivals around the world, such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Sundance and have won several prizes. He is a "regular" at Cannes with six films in different sections in the past few years including Delta, a Hungarian-German co-production that was in the main competition and won the FIPRESCI Award in 2008, Tender Son-The Frankenstein Project also in Competition and the Mexican film Miss Bala that was distributed by Fox International Pictures after its Cannes premiere.