Experimental Film & Music Video Festival
Submit your film and get it shown at the festival that runs for 6 times a year in Toronto, and 3 times a year in Los Angeles.
An astronaut travels deep into a black hole to find a way to save his dying love.
In mathematics, plus minus indicates a choice of exactly two possible values, one of which is the negation of the other.
This is my interpretation of a couple trying to survive the insurmountable differences between them.
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
 Gregor Errath |
We could not participate at the festival, but they made video on feedback on our Music Video screening, and this was really interesting.  |
| WHERE AM I – COLACOASTER, 3min., Italy/Austria, Music Video Directed by Michael Durr & Mathias FellnerMusic video for track ‘Where Am I’ of Colacoaster’s Debut Album. Shot on location in Sicily.CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film! |
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: SUPPLE HEARTS
BEST ANIMATION: 01
BEST PERFORMANCES: SUPPLE HEARTS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: LAND OF MINE
BEST MUSIC: SUNFLOWER SUTRA
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:
The theme of the June 2018 ANIMATION & EXPERIMENTAL FEEDBACK Film Festival in Toronto was “Innocence Lost”. Every single film was about characters who lost their idealism.
These types of festivals bring on a whole new crowd and with that an entirely new conversation in the feedback section. These are divisive films that many times attempt to make a social or political commentary on the world.
In the other festivals, the conversation is more about the storytelling – the plots and characters in the films we present. With the Animation & Experimental Festival the discussions lean more towards the thematics and overall points of the film. The subtext and emotions. How is makes us feel!
So if an audience member would go to our Comedy Festival for example on week, an then this festival the next week, they would think we are at a different venue or city.
I like these festivals. The event and films always makes me think days afterward. It stays with me for a long time. I keep going back to the films and what was said.
There is SO much talent out there. It’s amazing actually. Whatever we can do to help get more people to see these films.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
PUPPETS AND PUSHPINS, 4min., Canada, Dance/Music Video 
THE BUTTER KNIFE, 6min., USA, Comedy/Romance
THE LEGEND OF RASPUTIN, 13min., Canada, Family/Animation
01, 7min., Germany, Experimental/Animation
STAR RUNNER, 2min., USA, Animation/Experimental
TWICE UPON A TIME, 14min., Serbia, Animation/Fantasy 
OH MY…., 4min,., USA, Animation/Music Video 
OH! UGANDA, 5min., Uganda, Animation/Documentary
LAND OF MINE, 4min., Germany, Experimental 
WHERE AM I – COLACOASTER, 3min., Italy/Austria, Music Video
SUNFLOWER SUTRA, 4min., Netherlands, Music Video
TROUBLE, 3min., Austria, Music Video 
SUPPLE HEARTS, 5min., UK, Experimental
HAUL, 5min., Czech Republic, Music Video 
BURIED, 14min., UK, Thriller/War
AINHOA, 19min, Spain, Drama/Thriller
STREAM OF DOUBTS, 11min., France, Drama/Fantasy
MEASURE, 2min, UK, Horror/Drama
LIFE ON MARS, 16min., Spain, Drama
VINDICTE, 26min., Germany, Drama/Family