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Festival Season:

August 2024

Feel Proud Walk Tall. A Photographer's Journey

Feel Proud Walk Tall. A Photographer's Journey

Directors:

Writers:

Matt Reed

Producers:

Lisa Reed

Run Time:

0:42:00

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Feel Proud Walk Tall goes inside the life and work of Australia’s commercial photographer & filmmaker, Matt Reed. From farm boy, to music shop owner, to image maker. This short film focuses on his unique view of the talent, passion and resilience required as a freelance creative in the past 15 years.


Submitter Statement

I’ve been a commercial photographer since 2009, completing 5,000+ photoshoots for all types of clients big and small. Throw me into any scenario and I’ll come out with the photos needed.


Along the way, I felt a growing disconnection with what I was making for clients. In a lot of cases what we were doing I would not choose to buy myself.


A bolt of clarity came on a regional shoot in the middle of nowhere.


There’s one photo I took by chance of a genuine bloke called Mark. It changed the course of my life.


I now create imagery that does more than meet a brief. It needs to help the people in front of the camera. We’re big believers in people feeling proud of who they are and their role in this world.


In addition to photos, I have wanted to make Branded Films for years. This is how we’d like to help businesses and not-for-profits tell their story.


It made sense to tell our own story.


To show:

• A Branded Film has either that documentary or feature-film feel to it. It’s not an ad.

• As a brand, doing this requires a leap of faith. You have to break with the usual rules of what your product or service has to look like, and how it can be treated.

• This is a legitimate, honest attempt to inform or educate by delving deeper.

• This is if you really want to create authentic branded content.


We feel this is the future for commercial photography and filmmaking.

For 18+ years, Matt has been developing a skillset that allows him to be thrown into the unknown and find strong images.


He is creative, intuitive, quickly grasps new ideas, adapts, thinks laterally, and can roll on the fly.


He’s happiest when making things with good people. People feel comfortable and relaxed around him. Humble leader.

Key Cast

Matt Reed, Kate Ellen Campbell, Haresh Chandra, Lisa Reed, Yoshitaka "Sanshi" Saegusa, Henry Whitehead, Jasmin Bernhagen, Cristina Londono, Justine Kiggen, Cevrina Reed

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