Author: matthewtoffolo

DICTIONARY played to rave reviews at the February 2022 LA Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? “Dictionary” as a concept came to me while working on my previous short, “Through her glasses,” a film based on someone else’s real love story, not mine. Meeting new people on that set and… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Elena Viklova (DICTIONARY)

ORDINARY WORLD was the winner of BEST FILM at the Feb. 2022 LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Our mission is to create and showcase stories by and for the developmentally disabled population that go beyond the limiting narrative of their disability. Most film and television we see surrounding… Continue reading Interview with Producers Arielle Yoder & Kendra Heisler (ORDINARY WORLD)

LOVE DOESN’T EQUAL SEX played to rave reviews at the March 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I found out what asexuality was when I was 12 years old and sorta officially took on that identity at 14, it was always something that made me feel strange and different… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Alysha Margert Dymock (LOVE DOESN’T EQUAL SEX)

THE BUTTERFLY was the winner of BEST FILM at the March 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? ~ I was in lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic in New York City. The production company I’m a member of, Red Flight Pictures, decided since we were all out of… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Z. Joseph Guice (THE BUTTERFLY)

PORTRAITS OF INCANTATION was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the February 2022 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? At every opportunity , my father and mother took me to the museums in Athens, Greece to encounter the classical, figurative marble sculptures of ancient Western Europe… Continue reading Intervie with Filmmaker Taso Papadakis (PORTRAITS OF INCANTATION)

TO BECOME BORN played to rave reviews at the February 2022 WILDsound Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The story of the music behind this video is that I lost my newborn son to a rare genetic condition at three days old. The music was a way of processing his loss… Continue reading Interview with Artist Ram Dass, (TO BECOME BORN)

ANGELI played to rave reviews at the March 2022 FEMALE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It was a school project and we were shooting in a studio, with very good material and professionals, so I wanted to take that chance to make a movie I might not be able to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Eliza Noel (ANGELI)

LET’S PLAY was the winner of BEST FILM at the March 2022 FEMALE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? A challenge I set myself after attending a film festival in my city. I told my girlfriend who was with me: next year I will screen my film here. I took the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Katia Sauthier (LET’S PLAY)

SHY LITTLE BOY played to rave reviews at the March 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? – I moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming in high school. I was in the closet for the majority of my time there with next to no LGBTQ+ role models or representation. Years later,… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Jack Hessler (SHY LITTLE BOY)

The PRATT in the HAT was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the March 2022 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. What motivated you to make this film? When I saw Frances across a room of grey I was drawn to her brightly color hats and outfit – after she agreed to allow me to photographer I was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Susan Hillary (The PRATT in the HAT)