BLACKWELL SUMMERS MYSTERY Short Film – Watch Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2016 Festival

WATCH AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEO, moderated by Matthew Toffolo BLACKWELL SUMMERS MYSTERY, 12min., USA, Action/Crime Directed by Emily Dell Revolves around the detective agency of Grace Blackwell and Raven Summers. A feisty duo fighting injustice and giving a voice to the defenseless using brute force, killer brains and unconventional beauty. Director Statement: I was first introduced… Continue reading BLACKWELL SUMMERS MYSTERY Short Film – Watch Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2016 Festival

MOTEL MOTEL Short Film – Watch Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2016 Festival

WATCH AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEO. Moderated by Matthew Toffolo: MOTEL MOTEL, 20min., Belgium, Crime/Mystery Directed by Ellen J. Babeliowsky When Hjalmar inspects his room in an old, worn-out motel, he discovers a severed ear in the deep-pile carpet. During his search for the origin of the ear, he stumbles from one strange ocurrence into the next.… Continue reading MOTEL MOTEL Short Film – Watch Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2016 Festival

Watch all the Videos from the Oct. 2016 ACTION/CRIME Film Festival

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Highlights from the Thursday October 20, 2016 event. The October 2016 ACTION/CRIME Festival was a major success. The sold out crowd loved every single film. The theme of the festival was “Remember the Red Herring”. In these genres (action, crime, mystery) especially, the “red herring” element always appears, like they…

Deadline October 29th – 1pg. Screenplay Contest

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The Los Angeles FEEDBACK Festival Presents: Submit a screenplay that is only 1 page long and have it performed at the Writing Festival by professional actors. Also garner FULL FEEDBACK on your work. (NOTE: The screenplay submission must be properly formatted.)  Submit for only $15. Most of the screenplays will…

Read Interviews with Professional Costume Designers

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Read interviews with some of the top costume designers in the movie industry today: Interview with Costume Designer Janelle Nicole Carothers (The Perfect Match): http://matthewtoffolo.com/2016/03/11/interview-with-costume-designer-janelle-nicole-carothers-the-perfect-match/ From Janelle: I usually get brought on about 1 month before depending on the scale of the production. Sometimes as late as two weeks. I…

Get to know Captain America Cinematographer Trent Opaloch

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rent Opaloch is easily the most talented and sought after cinematographers in the world today. He has DP’d for director Neil Blomkamp  on “District 9”, “Elysium”, and “Chappie”,  and director’s Anthony & Joe Russo on “Captain America: Winter Soldier”, and the upcoming “Captain America: Civil War”. It was an honor to sit…

Read this week’s movie reviews:

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AMERICAN PASTORAL (USA 2016) *** Ewan McGregor makes his directing debut and stars alongside Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning in this ambitious adaptation of Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, about a “perfect” American family that is torn apart by the social and political upheavals of the 1960s. One must…