{"id":1105,"date":"2017-03-14T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2018-03-17T00:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:26:27","slug":"meet-the-crew-cinematographer-mat-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/2017\/03\/14\/meet-the-crew-cinematographer-mat-johns\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the crew: cinematographer Mat Johns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duck66 Films are pleased to announce that Mat Johns will be the cinematographer for Once Bitten&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Mat Johns is a freelance Writer, Director, Cam Op \/ DP\u00a0and Editor\u00a0based in Manchester with\u00a0over 10 years of\u00a0freelance and independent filmmaking experience. Mat\u2019s\u00a0films have been shown at festivals around the world and have also been featured on film websites shortoftheweek.com and aintitcool.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200bMat was the cinematographer on the avant-garde music film Aelia Laelia which Once Bitten&#8230; director Pete Tomkies co-directed for Christopher John Chaplin and Fabrique Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Mat\u00a0recently wrote, directed and edited the award-winning short film A Father\u2019s Day, funded by\u00a0Creative England &amp; BFI.NETWORK.\u00a0The film has\u00a0been distributed across\u00a0streaming services\u00a0by Shorts International\u00a0and\u00a0selected by over 100 film festivals so far;\u00a0including five\u00a0BAFTA qualifying festivals (Encounters, Leeds International, Film Court De Brest, Sydney Film Festival and London Short Film Festival) and three\u00a0of the top horror festivals in the world (Screamfest, Fantasporto, Sacramento Horror Film Festival).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duck66 Films are pleased to announce that Mat Johns will be the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/2017\/03\/14\/meet-the-crew-cinematographer-mat-johns\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2017-03-14.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1265,"url":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/2018\/04\/27\/meet-the-crew-qa-mat-johns-cinematographer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1105,"position":0},"title":"Meet The Crew Q&#038;A: Mat Johns &#8211; Cinematographer","date":"27th April 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In the fourth part of our series of Q&As with the cast and crew of Once Bitten\u2026 we would like to introduce you to our magician with light, cinematographer Mat Johns. 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