Matt Hanson
Matt Hanson (born 17 September 1971) is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in digital art. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels, onedotzero, and book projects including The End of Celluloid.
Matt Hanson
![[A Swarm of Angels] creator, Matt Hanson. Biography (approx 100 words) Matt Hanson is a film futurist; a writer and filmmaker described as an "International film visionary" by Screen International magazine. His current open source filmmaking project -- A Swarm of Angels (www.aswarmofangels.com) -- crowdsources the funding, creation, and distribution, of a feature film using the Internet and all-d](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Matt_Hanson.jpg/1280px-Matt_Hanson.jpg)
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- Name
- Matt Hanson
- Born
- 17 September 1971
- Birthplace
- Huddersfield, England
- Occupation
- writer, filmmaker, producer
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
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Matt Hanson (born 17 September 1971) is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in digital art. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels, onedotzero, and book projects including The End of Celluloid.
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• Name — Matt Hanson • Born — 17 September 1971 • Birthplace — Huddersfield, England • Occupation — writer, filmmaker, producer • Website — matthanson.net
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Matt Hanson is a filmmaker who created the onedotzero digital film festival & organisation, and is the author of a series of books on digital film, including The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age. He is credited as a producer on short films (including the award-winning Salaryman 6, with Jake Knight, and City of Hollow Mountains with The Light Surgeons), television series for Channel 4 (UK). As an advocate of digital film and alternative moving image in the 1990s he championed and showcased UK premieres of work by then relative unknowns Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry and Jonathan Glazer. Film project aims to raise £1 million to make a Creative Commons-licensed film He is the originator of the Creative Commons-licensed film project A Swarm of Angels. A Screen International article cited him as an 'international film visionary'. Forbes listed him among 'Ten People Who Could Change The World' in 2007. He was chosen as a participant in the inaugural Creators Series 2007, a showcase of emerging creativity and ideas in New York and Los Angeles by Tomorrow Unlimited.
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