Author: chicagofilmfestival

A forty-something tries to change the past to change his present. CAST LIST: Narration – JOLLY AMOAKO Kassie – 8 – KATELYN VARADI Bert – 9 – THOMAS FOURNIER Jody – 1 – DELPHINE ROUSSEL Eric – 1 – LOGAN FORSYTH — Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder Casting Director: Sean […]

COMEDY Best Scene Reading: LATE FEES, by Darren Coyle — Comedy FESTIVAL

Overview: One of the best things about this script is that you were willing to take chances and they certainly paid off. Bojack, Princess Carolyn, Diane, and Todd are at the core of this episode. Each begins with very different expectations and perspectives than they end with and the overall plotline is something that fans […]

Winning TV SPEC Screenplay of BOJACK HORSEMAN, by Kayla Kristofco — Comedy FESTIVAL

Facing a divorce that threatens to halve his fortune, billionaire DICK SCHANTZ replaces himself with a clone precisely engineered to save his marriage and net worth. But when he sees how much more his wife loves Dick 2.0, a jealous Dick must battle his better self to win back his better half. CAST LIST: Narrator: […]

Winning COMEDY Feature Screenplay Reading: Dick 2.0, by Henry Sarwer-Foner & Noel Baker — Comedy FESTIVAL

When the cameras stop rolling and the princess dresses get put away, life in YouTube kids fantasy land isn’t quite what its cracked up to be. Aspiring actors trying to make it in the biz, Jessica and her other Princess Pals are just trying to get through each day without quitting their oh-so-wonderful jobs, pretending […]

COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Princess Pals, by Jenn Barlow, Lindsey Jean Roetzel — Comedy FESTIVAL

An intolerable Republican candidate is voted in as President of the United States, but he seems more interested in partying than running the country, or taking orders from his ominous overlord. CAST LIST: NARRATION – SARAH DESOUZA-COELHO Buzz – 5 – SEAN BALLANTYNE Hope – 6 – JULIE C. SHEPPARD Carson – 5 – GENE […]

COMEDY Best Scene Reading: PARTY OVER COUNTRY, by Tim Gale — Comedy FESTIVAL

A struggling comedian with an unsuccessful dating life finds compatibility in a woman nearly twenty years his senior, but their difference in age triggers insecurities that he lacks the wisdom to manage. CAST LIST: Tara: Justine Christensen Narrator: Jordan Boscariol Andrew: Gabriel Darku Lance: Fabio Abrue — Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, […]

COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Age-Dive, by Ryan Mutama — Comedy FESTIVAL

Two artists from NYC become disillusioned by their urban existence and decide to escape to rural New Hampshire to start an art collective in an effort to shift the current paradigm of consciousness – yet what they didn’t anticipate was how differing ideologies would impact their naive idealistic vision. CAST LIST: Faith: Jordan Boscariol Narrator: […]

COMEDY Best Scene Screenplay: ONE MORE ZERO, by Toni Nagy — Comedy FESTIVAL

Filmmaker Karisa Bruin (LABOR RELATIONS) I loved it! I’m so glad that certain things were picked up on – the idea that other women are complicit, that it’s a don’t-ask, don’t-tell situation in the workplace, and that people found it was funny. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video:

Comedy Festival Testimonial – April 29 2020 — Comedy FESTIVAL

I’ve heard many times in my life that I am wasting my time and money by going to college to study film. However, as I’m approaching my last semesters of my college career, I am realizing just how much I have learned. Here are the top five things my University has taught me about the […]

5 Things I’ve Learned in Film School from a College Senior — Cinematic Breakdown and Review

Synopsis: The story of a recuperating news photographer who believes he has witnessed a murder. Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, he spends his time watching the occupants of neighbouring apartments through a telephoto lens and binoculars and becomes convinced that a murder has taken place. Release date: August 4, 1954 (New York) Director: Alfred Hitchcock […]

Rear Window Film Review — Cinematic Breakdown and Review