Launched in 2013 Mattfilms Ltd. is a Canadian corporation specializing in independent film, television and digital content for theatrical, TV broadcast and digital streaming. Drawing from global talent and finance to facilitate Mattfilms' purpose is to produce Canadian and international co-productions for audiences who are looking for entertainment through content that investigate and challenge the human experience.
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Ashley Matt - Owner and operator of Mattfilms Ltd.Following her studies in journalism and art, Ashley began her career in communications, project management and artistic direction. Utilizing emerging techniques, funding opportunities and relationship building, Ashley brings to her film making the skills acquired from a decade of work paired with the new and innovative keys necessary for modern film production in Canada and internationally.
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Director Biography
Ashley is developing her third feature, the noir spy thriller Night at Station Main, co-produced with Lucky Dime Films and is co-developing an international police/detective/drama series Godley with Northern Ireland company Village Films. Ashley began writing feature screenplays in 2009. She co-produced her first feature documentary in 2013. Ashley moved in to producing and directing with a handful of micro shorts, one of which was first place winner of the CreativeFuture and VidCon 2015 contest. Ashley moved in to feature films with her experimental new wave A Walk which went to the 2016 Agora Film Market at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Ashley’s follow up feature, the dark comedy/crime/fantasy and rotoscope animation I Believe in Bank Robbers, is in post production.
Ashley’s early film education began with rented VHS copies of Monty Python, Peter Sellers, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola movies. With the advent of DVDs, a foreign film section at the corner movie shop and the discovery of a local film group that screened independent pieces supplied by Toronto International Film Festival Circuit, Ashley's visual and storytelling style was cemented. Later Ashley's palate was expanded when she discovered Sally Potter, Andrea Arnold, Jane Campion and Mira Nair. Ashley’s inspiration comes from everyday encounters, news, music, art, books and film. Ashley lives and works in Ontario, Canada.
Ashley is a member of Women in Film & Television - Toronto, an associate member of Women in Film - LA, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Creative Women International and Shooting People in the UK.
Ashley’s early film education began with rented VHS copies of Monty Python, Peter Sellers, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola movies. With the advent of DVDs, a foreign film section at the corner movie shop and the discovery of a local film group that screened independent pieces supplied by Toronto International Film Festival Circuit, Ashley's visual and storytelling style was cemented. Later Ashley's palate was expanded when she discovered Sally Potter, Andrea Arnold, Jane Campion and Mira Nair. Ashley’s inspiration comes from everyday encounters, news, music, art, books and film. Ashley lives and works in Ontario, Canada.
Ashley is a member of Women in Film & Television - Toronto, an associate member of Women in Film - LA, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Creative Women International and Shooting People in the UK.
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Ashley's IMDB page.
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