Author: Matt Ferro

Matt Ferro is a journeyman filmmaker who has continually pushed forward the leading edge of technology in storytelling. Producer of the Academy Award winning visual effects of THE MATRIX and other notable feature films, Matt led the development of the creative and digital pipelines for Warner Bros. HAPPY FEET, winner of the Oscar for best animated film of 2006. Discovering the good life Down Under during the Matrix and Happy Feet years, Matt now resides in Sydney where he runs an international film, television and gaming company, Core3 Entertainment, with Aussie television producer Philippa Whitfield.

By the time Kevin “Pro” Hart died in 2006, he had become Australia’s most commercially successful artist, proclaimed “The Father of the Australian Outback Art Movement”, was a famous TV commercial star. Yet Pro Hart was never accepted by the art establishment; to this day, his work has still not been hung in Australia’s National Gallery.Why would an artist collected by Kings and Queens, by movie stars, even by presidents, who was awarded the MBE and considered the father of an entire art movement be dismissed by the art world at large? Perhaps it was his populist artistic style and…

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First a word from our sponsor, Time: In every sense, filmmaking is all about time. Not just the time it takes to conceptualize, write, pitch, fund, produce and release a film, let alone the time it’s taken me to get this article to CWB…no, I mean Time in its most abstract state of self. There is no single definition for time that isn’t fuzzy and indefinite. Even the word “indefinite” seems to pop up in many of these definitions. A bit circular, really…but if we accept that events happen in the universe with or without us–that things are constantly changing…

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