• The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
  Mary Catherine Bateson
• Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
  Gary Vaynerchuck
• A story develops and grows in the mind of your listener. If it is a good story, you don't have to keep it alive yourself. It is automatically retold or replayed in the minds of your listeners.
  Annette Simmons
• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another
  Studs Terkel
• Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
  Jean Luc Goddard
• We cannot think without language. We cannot process experience without story
  Christina Baldwin
• One of the most important things to keep in mind using stories in organisations is to get clear, and stay clear, on the purpose for which the story is being used.
  Steve Denning.
• What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
  Robert McKee
• If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life
  Siberian Elder
• I story therefore I am.
  Michael Margolis

Great film-making is about telling a story in an engaging and captivating way. Why do we make films instead of doing proper work? Essentially, because we’re driven by an urge to take subject material, which is often complex and sensitive - to capture it sympathetically, wrangle, juxtapose and craft it until it’s refined into something just right, with it’s own natural rhythm and duration.

Every film Matobo makes is designed to tell a story and our bookshelves are crammed with scribbled notepads from the past two and a half decades, each a record of the stories behind every film we’ve made.

Our story as a business has it's roots back in 1987, when Ben got his foot in the door of a small film company and progressed from mowing the lawn to making the coffee and gradually learning his craft as a sound recordist, director and editor. In 1992, he bought a ticket to Botswana and wandered for a year through Africa and India with a beautiful half-Swiss girl called Catherine.

It was one of those loose photo assignments that involved documenting far-flung AIDS outreach and agro-reforestation programmes and it was in south west Zimbabwe,

behind the wheel of a borrowed 1964 Sunbeam Alpine, that they first set eyes on a remote and beguiling landscape called Matobo - “View Of The World.”

Oh, and he got the girl - they were hitched at sunrise on the steps of the Taj Mahal - and they now live in Truro with their two sons and a Jack Russell terrorist.

So that's our story – now we'd love the chance to help you to tell yours.

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We're fortunate to have worked on some pretty diverse stuff over the past 25 years or so. We've worked with every major film and video format out there and we've met some interesting characters along the way.

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