Author: matthewtoffolo

MICKEY HARDAWAY was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the May 2021 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? * I wanted to make a story about dreamers, artist that love there passion and craft and have something more to bring to this world. But I also wanted to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Marcellus Cox (MICKEY HARDAWAY)

FAREWELL was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the May 2021 LGBTQ+ FEEDBACK Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I had this idea over ten years ago, so I have carried it with me for a long time. I felt that I rarely see films about older women and their… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Animation Maria Åkesson (FAREWELL)

BEING SASCHA was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the May 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’m interested in projects that challenge my way of thinking. I want to personally evolve with every project I’m doing. And I think Sascha and Saschas Story let me no other chance… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Manuel Gübeli (BEING SASCHA)

A PART was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the May 2021 DANCE Film Festival . 1. What motivated you to make this film? When the corona virus had its first break out, society went crazy. People started to fight over toilet paper and canned foods in grocery stores like it was the end of… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Erika O’Neill (A PART)

MY YANG GANG DIARY was the winner of BEST POLITICAL DOC at the May 2021 DOCUMENTARY Feedback Film Festival 1. What motivated you to make this film? I followed Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign and the people who supported Yang, known as Yang Gang for about one year. I recorded many events; in sunshine, rain, snow,… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ching Juhl (MY YANG GANG DIARY)

NOSEBLEED was the winner of BEST PERFROMANCES at the LGBTQ+ Feedback Film Festival in May 2021. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was actually in acting class at AMAW studios & we were doing this exercise where we went around & “type-casted” each other to help give one another a brief understanding… Continue reading Interview with Actor/Writer Brian Falduto (NOSEBLEED)

1) What is the theme of your poem? How personality vastly affects experience but with somewhat random outcomes. 2) What motivated you to write this poem? No one thing but I wanted to write a poem at two different speeds. It was also supposed to be more comedic than it ended up being. 3) How… Continue reading Interview with POET Mark Kirkbride (The Note Pinned To My Heart Reads)

What is your short story about? It’s about racial perception, perspective, and reality. 2. What genres would you say this story is in? This story can be placed in eight genres: nonfiction, fiction, drama, biography, narrative, mainstream, tweens, and children. 3. How would you describe this story in two words? Self-Love 4. What movie have… Continue reading Interview with Writer Vivian Dixon Sober (THE DECEPTIVE MIRROR)

1. What is your short story about? This is a humorous story about a hungry vampire. 2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in? Fantasy 3. How would you describe this story in two words? humorous, vampire 4. What movie have you seen the most in your life? Casablanca 5. Do you remember… Continue reading Interview with Writer E J Randolph (IT’S FINALLY NIGHT)

1. What is your short story about? A real murder in Brooklyn 2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in? True Story 3. How would you describe this story in two words? Girl gone. 4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?<.b> Kwaidan, 1965 Japanese movie – 4 short ghost… Continue reading Interview with Writer Mark William Hammond (GOOD NEWS)