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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

Synopsis Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn’t commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps […]

The Shawshank Redemption Review (1994) — Cinematic Breakdown and Review

Synopsis Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat. With his eccentric aunts (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), disturbed […]

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Film Review — Cinematic Breakdown and Review

Synopsis Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary […]

Coco (2017) Film Review — Cinematic Breakdown and Review

Synopsis Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Surrounded by the brutal realties of war, while searching for Ryan, each man embarks upon a personal journey and discovers their own strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, […]

Saving Private Ryan (1998) Film Review — Cinematic Breakdown and Review

The world right now is a stressful and scary place. Everywhere you look there is news and talk of the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s easy to fall into a state of depression and gloom, and to let the stress of everything get the best of you. However, I’m hoping this list of feel- good films can […]

5 Movies To Help Get You Through Social Distancing — Cinematic Breakdown and Review