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A MASSACRE IN MEMPHIS played to rave reviews at the August 2019 Documentary Short Film Festival. Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Dee Garceau: I’m a U.S. History professor who was living in Memphis and heard about a controversial incident that tore the city apart in 1866. It was a racialized massacre […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Dee Garceau (A MASSACRE IN MEMPHIS) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A HIMALAYAN SHEPHERD was the winner of BEST FILM at the August 2019 Documentary Short Film Festival in Toronto. Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Manchhiring Tamang: My motivation to make this film roots from my familial and cultural ties to the village. I was born […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Manchhiring Tamang (A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A HIMALAYAN SHEPHERD) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

THE ARTIST played to rave reviews at the August 2019 Documentary Short Film Festival in Toronto. Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Mark Garcia: I first met Mauro while running a camera on his first film he directed titled, The Recall. One day just Mauro and I went to grab some night […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mark Garcia (THE ARTIST) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

RED CHEF REVIVAL was the winner of BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the October 2019 TV Web Series Festival in Toronto. Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Danny Berish: What motivated us to make this series was based on how embarrassingly little we knew about the indigenous culture and cuisine. 2. […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Danny Berish (RED CHEF REVIVAL TV Web Series) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Christian Frosio: The theme of the song is a subject dear to me. During the recording music session, I started to write the storyboard of the video clip and to imagine the related scenes. It was a natural process. The idea was to reinforce the message […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Christian Frosio (OPEN THE WINDOW) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Ashley Gerst: I was motivated by my relationship between my grandfather and myself. He passed away in 2013, and I wanted to do something to honor his memory and to help me find a way through my grief regarding his death. 2. From the idea to […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ashley Gerst (THE SPIRIT SEAM) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Sundance 2020 was a whirlwind experience, to say the least. Both Collin and I are still shaking off the cobwebs from the week spent in… via Sundance 2020 Wrap-Up — MovieBabble

Where were you the day you fell out of love with Taylor Swift? Was it when she dropped Red in 2012? After all, the follow-up… via How ‘Miss Americana’ Converted a Skeptic into a Swiftie — MovieBabble

(Cover Image & Source: The Story of Lassie (documentary photo) @ YouTube) …It all began in the year of 1859., with “The Half-brothers”, a short story of two half-brothers who are lost and dying in the snow, rescued by the female Rough Collie dog (also known as the Scottish shepherd dog), written by the British […]… Continue reading The Story of Lassie – The World´s Most Famous Dog — Libertas Nova

The title The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper sums up this nonfiction nicely. Rubenhold narrates the lives of Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, from their birth to those fateful days in 1888. Along the way, she also explores Victorian society as… Continue reading The Five by Hallie Rubenhold review — Random Book Reviews Web