Peter Scarf

Peter Scarf (born 11 February 1980) is an Australian actor, writer, film director and entrepreneur. Scarf starred as Liam Tanner on Australian television show Home and Away, before producing a number of feature films including Fortune, which he co-wrote and directed with Ahmad Diba. In addition to Fortune, Scarf has produced Two Door Mansion and Right Here Right Now. Scarf currently appears as Senior Constable Andrew in Channel Nine's Underbelly: The Golden Mile. Peter Scarf is co-founder of Matilda Media and subsidiaries Matilda Books, Newzulu, 3DVRX and Rightstrade. Scarf is co-founder of the Digital Museum of Australia. Recently, Scarf is an Executive Producer on the feature film The Silent Storm, starting Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers, Homeland) and Andrea Risebrough (Oblivion, W.E)

Matilda Media
Scarf is co-founder of Matilda Media Group with Alex Hartman. The headquarters of Matilda Media is in Sydney; the company also has representative offices in SoHo, New York, Studio City, California; and Paris, France. Scarf is co-founder of Rightstrade. Rightstrade assists film and TV sales agencies promote titles for licensing rights and for digital delivery through the RightsCloud high-speed network. In May 2012 film services industry pioneer Technicolor announced it had partnered with Rightstrade. Peter Scarf is co-founder of Newzulu, a crowd sourced news wire, freelance journalism marketplace and citizen journalism platform and its advertising newtwork Adzulu, a crowd sourced advertising platform. Scarf is co-founder of 3DVRX, a digital home entertainment platform.

On May 28, 2013 it was announced that Matilda Media would acquire Citizenside from Agence France-Presse, IAM and the original founders of Scooplive. Matilda has announced it would launch a new English-language citizen journalism initiative, named Newzulu, based on the Citizenside technology platform and headquartered in Paris.

On July 11, 2013 the Commercial Court of Paris approved Matilda Media's acquisition of Citizenside. Matilda launched Newzulu, headquartered in Paris as a crowd sourced news wire, freelance journalism marketplace and citizen journalism platform, in partnership with the world's third largest news wire, Agence France-Presse. Newzulu provides a marketplace for freelance journalists, photographers and videographers and also distributes articles, photos and videos from citizen journalists around the world, through 7000 media outlets in partnership with AFP.

Biography
Scarf was born in Sydney to a Greek mother and Lebanese father. He is the youngest of three children (an older brother and sister). During his last few years of high school he was working full-time as an actor on Australian television. In the year 2000, he graduated from the University of New South Wales in Media and Communications majoring in English and film production. Scarf has been involved in both the creative and financial side of a number of feature films both in Australia and the United States but now focuses his efforts specifically on writing and directing.

Acting
Scarf acted in school plays and then joined the Australian Theatre for Young People. During school he began auditioning for professional roles and landed his first television appearance in Australian Broadcasting Corporation's GP series, which aired in mid-1995. Just after he had started back at school last year, he won the role of Liam Tanner on Home and Away. He left school but continued his education with the Sydney Distance School and studied the Year 12 curriculum. Scarf's first episode as Liam Tanner was episode 1910, which aired in Australia on 26 April 1996.

Scarf appeared in a number of leading Australian TV shows including, Wildside, WaterRats, All Saints, Farscape, and the Icon Production telemovie The Three Stooges. Scarf recently appeared as Senior Constable Andrew in Channel Nine's Underbelly: The Golden Mile.