page_title: Matt Hanson
hierarchical_section_title: Matt Hanson
caption_attribution_description: [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-digital technologies. Previously he founded the massively influential onedotzero digital film festival in 1996 at the dawn of digital filmmaking, which he directed until 2002. He is the writer of a series of digital-age cinema books including The End of Celluloid, and Reinventing Music Video. A member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, he lives in Brighton, England.
context_page_description: Matt Hanson 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. As creator of A Swarm of Angels he has become concerned with issues relating to Creative Commons, Free Culture, Open source culture, crowdsourcing, and File sharing.
context_section_description: 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. As creator of A Swarm of Angels he has become concerned with issues relating to Creative Commons, Free Culture, Open source culture, crowdsourcing, and File sharing.
caption: Hanson in 2004
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