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Matt Blyth is a writer, a filmmaker and photographer with more than 20 years experience in media, film and education. He has worked as a teacher and Principal in some of Australia’s most remote schools. Since 1994 he has been the key Queensland segment producer for ‘The Crew’ a national weekly half hour youth affairs show on SBS TV. In 2008/09, he worked across the Northern Territory in a number of remote indigenous communities to develop multimedia resources for the, ‘Cultures of Collaboration’ program for NT DET. He was also a coordinator of the first ‘Connecting Through Film NT Schools Film Festival’.

Over the last seven years he has worked as a video split assistant or operator on some of the largest film productions to be shot in Australia including, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Terra Nova’ and ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’.

In 2010 Matt was awarded a Churchill fellowship for screenwriting and in 2012 started his own production company Matt Blyth Media, He is currently Co-directing his first documentary feature Drawing The Line due for release November 2013.