Matt Harris
Filmmaker
Matt Harris
Filmmaker
Photographing radioactive shipwrecks at Bikini Atoll. Eye-to-eye with Great Whites off South Africa. Capturing London's skate culture one moment, prime ministers and Hollywood royalty the next.
Behind the Lens
Award winning director whose distinctive visual voice has resonated with global corporations and major broadcasters across the UK, US, and Europe.
For over 24 years he has led Pixelwork, the creative company he founded, delivering everything from broadcast documentaries to high-end commercial campaigns.
Since 2000, he has delivered brand campaigns across every medium; DVD-Rom, print, and web, building a portfolio that spans the full breadth of visual communication. Today his focus is squarely on moving image, partnering with forward-thinking brands to explore the creative frontier of Generative AI.
Now pushing into new territory as co-founder of Unreelated, an AI-first storytelling company built to reshape how brands and filmmakers create and distribute narrative content.
His debut feature Rom Boys: 40 Years of Rad, written, produced, directed, shot, and edited solo, earned a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, was acquired by 1091 Pictures, and won Best Feature Documentary at the 2020 Paris Surf & Skate Film Festival.
Channel 4 audiences also experienced his cinematic eye in The Lancaster at 80.
Since 2018 he has also shot and edited dozens of documentary news stories for German TV channel ProSieben, from light-entertainment pieces with social-media influencers to hard-hitting, highly sensitive true-crime investigations around murder and abuse.
Some Random Facts :
- I'm a Yachtmaster & PADI instructor
- I've worked as a treasure hunter in the Bahamas
- I've swum from Alcatraz Island (in under 30 minutes)
- I've been held at gunpoint in Cuba and Italy (un-related!)
- I've surfed in Central America, skydived in Vegas and been robbed in New York
- I found a WWII plane for the US National Park Service
- I've tested a new re-breather in Madagascar for Drager
- I've dived at a nuclear test site in the Pacific
- I've skippered a yacht around Cape Fear in a force 9 gale
- I've spearfished in a great white shark hunting ground
- I've owned more wetsuits than business suits
- I have a separated shoulder from downhill mountain biking.
I also snowboard, race on downhill mountain & road bikes, run marathons, race in long distance open water swims, skateboard in old school skateparks and have also completed an Ironman in Austria.
Despite all this my kids still call me "a silly old man in his glasses".