Jodi Matterson

[2][3] Matterson was managing director, Australia of film production company Made Up Stories alongside Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky.

[6] In 2017, Matterson joined film and television production company Made Up Stories alongside Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky as managing director, Australia.

[4]Matterson has been involved in the production of TV series such as The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, based on the book by Holly Ringland, and starring Sigourney Weaver.

[10] Patterson is part of a production company called Made Up Stories,[11] with Bruna Papandrea, which has created a series of TV and films.

On the film side, it just saw Luckiest Girl Alive, starring Mila Kunis, top the Netflix Top 10 chart globally while Eric Bana vehicle The Dry and Naomi Watts starrer Penguin Bloom were responsible for bringing the Australian box office back to life in 2021.

We have an amazing young filmmaker who just made a short film that knocked us out and we’ve been working on developing her for the last few years to make her feature debut.

The production designer we had on The Dry is another young girl, incredibly gifted and it was a big step up for her to do a movie of this scale.

It’s such a rewarding thing to be able to facilitate.”[13]Matterson is a supporter of diversity and equity,[14][6] including staff in their production teams who have disabilities involved.