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Matt Hanson is an author

Author

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, film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, and film director

Film director

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, specializing in digital art

Digital art

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...

. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels
A Swarm of Angels
A Swarm of Angels is an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers , each contributing £25 to the production...

, onedotzero
Onedotzero
onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts....

, and book projects including The End of Celluloid
The End of Celluloid
The End of Celluloid: Film futures in the digital age is a book, written by Matt Hanson and published by RotoVision in 2004, on digital cinematography, machinima, video games, music video, and other emerging film forms.- External links :**...

. As creator of A Swarm of Angels he has become concerned with issues relating to Creative Commons

Creative Commons

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, Free Culture

Free Culture

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, Open source culture, crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

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, and File sharing

File sharing

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Background

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 has made a multitude of successful and innovative 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), and is considered an expert in moving image trends.

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

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...

, Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham is an English music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk....

, Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...

and Jonathan Glazer

Jonathan Glazer

Jonathan Glazer is an English director of films, commercials and music videos.-Biography:After studying theatre design at Nottingham Trent University, Glazer started out directing theatre and making film and television trailers, including award-winning work for the BBC...

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He is the originator of the Creative Commons

Creative Commons

-licensed film project A Swarm of Angels

A Swarm of Angels

A Swarm of Angels is an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers , each contributing £25 to the production...

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A Screen International
Screen International
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article cited him as an 'international film visionary'. Forbes
Forbes
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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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