Happy Birthday Matthew – September 10, 2016

Matthew Toffolo is the current CEO of the WILDsound Film and Writing Festival. He had worked for the organization since its inception in 2007 serving as the Short Film Festival’s moderator during the Audience Feedback sessions.

Since takng over full reins of the WILDsound Festival in May 2013, he’s presented over 250 movies at the bi-monthly FEEDBACK Film Festival in Toronto, plus has had over 400 screenplays and stories performed by professional actors at the weekly Writing Festival.

A director of over 50 short films and TV episodes. In the last year alone, Matthew has directed and produced 14 poetry movies that have all went viral online.

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WATCH PAST FILM FESTIVAL EVENTS Matthew has Moderated

AUGUST FAMILY/ANIMATION 2016 Film Festival Watch Audience Feedback Videos from August 25th event

AUGUST HORROR/THRILLER 2016 Film Festival Watch Audience…

The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcased the best of female talent in film & TV from around the world.

Film Festival takes place twice a year. Next Festival is December 29, 2016
Screenplay Festival takes place monthly.

Festival takes place at the Revue LA Live Cinemas in downtown Los Angeles

Submit your Film via FilmFreeway:

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The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes.

Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this…

Read the best of interviews with some of the top Sound Designers in the movies today:

https://matthewtoffolo.com/category/sound-in-film/

Interview with Kami Asgar, Oscar Nominated Sound Editor

You spend so much time with every film that they are so much a part of you. There is moments in every film that challenge you, and you have to creatively find a way to overcome them. So there is moments that make you proud to have worked on. But as an entire package my personal favorite sound job is The Passion of the Christ. We spent almost nine months working on creating that world through sound.

Interview with Composer/Vocalist Dominic Lewis (Money Monster, Batman v Superman)

Normally its between 2-3 months for a feature. The last couple of movies have been a lot shorter than that. The usual process is that I’ll receive a cut of the movie (normally as its still being edited) and there…

Read best of TIFF 2016 Movie Reviews

INTERCHANGE (Malaysia/Indonesia 2016) ***

GAZA SURF CLUB (Germany 2016) ***

MOONLIGHT (USA 2016) ***

LONG EXCUSES (Japan 2016)

WE ARE NEVER ALONE (Czech/France 2016) ***1/2

THE SALESMAN (Iran/France 2016) ***

IN THE BLOOD (I BLODET )(Denmark 2016) ***

BEAUTIES OF THE NIGHT (BELLAS DE NOCHE) (Mexico 2016)

JESUS (Chile/Germany/Greece 2016) ***

THE WEDDING RING (Niger/ Burkina Faso / France 2016)

HELLO DESTROYER (Canada 2016)

THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI (Finland/Sweden/Germany 2016) ****

I CALLED HIM MORGAN (Sweden/USA 2016) ***

FIXEUR (THE FIXER)(Romania/France 2016) ****

MA’ ROSA (Philippines 2016) ****

THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (UK 2016)

FIRE AT SEA (Fuocoammare) (France/Italy 2016) ***

SAND STORM (Israel 2016) ***

SAMI BLOOD (SAME BLOD) (Sweden/Denmark/Norway 2016) ****

IXCANUL (VOLCANO) (Guatemala, France 2015) ***1/2

ZOOLOGY (Russia/France/Germany 2016) ****

CHRISTINE (USA 2016) *** Directed by Antonio Campos

ELLE, Director Paul Verhoeven

Reviews by Kierston Drier:

https://festivalreviews.org/tag/kierston-drier/

Movie Review: FOOTPRINTS (2016)

Deep in the forest, Cahng, an injured hunter searches for his family who are being haunted by a supernatural force.

Movie Review: DRAWN TO FEAR (2016)

A single woman named Hope has procured a rare book under strange circumstances. Little does she know that the book has a life of it’s own – drawing out the fears of those who possess it. Hope struggles to figure out the meaning of the book before it’s too late.

Movie Review: KADDISH! (2016)

When, on his way back home, a man stops at a motorway service area, he did not imagine that by talking to his urinal’s neighbor, it will trigger some terrible events.

Movie Review: PREFERENTIAL OPERATION (2016)

Four masked men kidnap the director of a bank branch in an unremarkable town. They put him in a van and ask him 90,000 euro from his own pocket.