Author: matthewtoffolo

1. What is your screenplay about? Our screenplay Is about the ridiculous nature of 2020. The shifting course of this year could not wait for the history books so we decided it would be best to tackle everything in a satirical format. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Our screenplay falls under sci-fi,… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriters John Azzopardi & Isaiah Carter (The Masked Chronicles)

1. What is your screenplay about? It’s a comedy about love, loss and what comes after. I’d say it’s a comedy about grief but I don’t want to give the impression I’m mocking or making light of the grieving process. But it definitely deals with what a mess it can make of us. 2. What… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Mike Bencivenga (HAUNTED HEART)

1. What is your screenplay about? Jubilee Nation is an erotic thriller about a political conspiracy that takes place in a fictional 1960’s all-black nation created in the aftermath of the Civil War. It is what the world would look like if reimagined through an alternate historical lens. It is the story of a black… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Henry Myers (Jubilee Nation)

1. What is your screenplay about? In a word, This Next Year is about trauma, in its many forms. The heroine, Kate, is a school shooting survivor living with PTSD. She returns to work as a high school counselor maybe too soon and we are on the journey with her as she deals with her… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Mark Violi (THIS NEXT YEAR)

1. What is your screenplay about? Confined Hatred follows Sgt. Robin Sole as she wakes to find herself trapped with six other strangers in a dangerous game of racism and torment. A mysterious Voice pushes the seven strangers to put aside their personal prejudices and work together in order to find a way to escape.… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Jeffrey Swerdan (Confined Hatred)

1. What is your screenplay about? Fix Me is about communication or the lack thereof. Mason is a star athlete with a secret and his mom, Arianna – will do anything to find out what that secret is. When she does get to the bottom of things, she talks to everyone except, Mason. She, with… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Aubree Sweeney (FIX ME)

SISTER played to rave reviews at the June 2021 RELATIONSHIPS Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The inspiration for ‘Sister’ came from an internship I did in May 2020. I visited a small village in the Southeast of China and noticed that the town was mostly occupied by the elderly and… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Janine Bujie Zhang (SISTER)

MILK was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the July 2021 FEMALE Filmmakers Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Lockdown in NZ and the Covid crisis essentially! We had just come out of our strict lockdown phase and we were starting to get back out in to ouir communities again and the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Celia Jaspers (MILK)

RULE 62: DEVON played to rave reviews at the July 2021 FEMALE Filmmaker Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I got sober pretty young. There’s little representation for those of us that remained in sobriety, however there is plenty of shows and movies about hitting rock bottom. I wanted to bring young… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Monk Henshaw (RULE 62: DEVON)

THE TEST was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the July 2021 DRAMA Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? What motivated me the most was my grandma`s death. Another motivation (inspiration) was Stanislaw Lem`s literature. 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Bartosz Toboła (THE TEST)