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Matt Pizzolo is a Director, Writer and Producer American
Matt Pizzolo (born on Long Island, New York) is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, producer, comic book writer, playwright, and entrepreneur. His early works were created in New York City's Lower East Side, where he lived for eight years before moving to Los Angeles. Best known for his work as creator of the transmedia franchise Godkiller, organizer of the Occupy Comics project, and writer-director of the indie movie Threat, Pizzolo also directed music videos for Atari Teenage Riot created DiY-Fest (the touring carnival of Do-it-Yourself mediamaking - which was eventually integrated into the Van's Warped Tour), founded Kings Mob Productions with filmmaking partner Katie Nisa, runs indie film studio HALO 8 Entertainment and the upcoming comic book publisher Black Mask Studios with partners Brett Gurewitz and Steve Niles. In addition, Pizzolo writes under a variety of pseudonyms.
Pizzolo was recently selected by Wired as World's Most Wired Comics Creator. In the profile titled "Evil Genius Plots to Blow Up the Comics Universe" [1], Pizzolo described the state of comics creation after Warner Brothers integrated DC Comics into the movie studio and Disney acquired Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm:
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Now that the lion’s share of the 20th century’s pop-cultural capital has been consolidated into the intellectual-property libraries of two Hollywood studios, it’s time to wipe the slate clean and rebuild comics from scratch: new ideas, innovations, business models, blood and modes of storytelling.
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Pizzolo is known for mixing new technologies with film, previously unveiling a still in-development, non-linear film format called EtherFilms at San Diego Comic Con. Wired posted the slide deck from Pizzolo's presentation of the in-development format which adds transmedia and hypertext to film. [2]
According to MTV Splash Page, Pizzolo will direct an illustrated film adaptation of the popular comic book series Hack/Slash.
According to The Huffington Post, Pizzolo is organizing the Occupy Comics project featuring dozens of comics pros including Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Ben Templesmith, Molly Crabapple, J.M. DeMatteis, Charlie Adlard, Steve Niles, Amanda Palmer.
For distribution of Occupy Comics, Pizzolo joined 30 Days of Night writer-creator Steve Niles and Epitaph Records owner/Bad Religion guitarist-songwriter Brett Gurewitz to form Black Mask Studios with the mandate of developing new ways to support creators and reach broader audiences beyond fandom. [3]
Pizzolo is currently working with Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk on the second part of the Godkiller trilogy Godkiller: Tomorrow's Ashes (following 2010's Godkiller: Walk Among Us). The new comic book series debuted in January 2012.
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Pizzolo was recently selected by Wired as World's Most Wired Comics Creator. In the profile titled "Evil Genius Plots to Blow Up the Comics Universe" [1], Pizzolo described the state of comics creation after Warner Brothers integrated DC Comics into the movie studio and Disney acquired Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm:
“
Now that the lion’s share of the 20th century’s pop-cultural capital has been consolidated into the intellectual-property libraries of two Hollywood studios, it’s time to wipe the slate clean and rebuild comics from scratch: new ideas, innovations, business models, blood and modes of storytelling.
”
Pizzolo is known for mixing new technologies with film, previously unveiling a still in-development, non-linear film format called EtherFilms at San Diego Comic Con. Wired posted the slide deck from Pizzolo's presentation of the in-development format which adds transmedia and hypertext to film. [2]
According to MTV Splash Page, Pizzolo will direct an illustrated film adaptation of the popular comic book series Hack/Slash.
According to The Huffington Post, Pizzolo is organizing the Occupy Comics project featuring dozens of comics pros including Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Ben Templesmith, Molly Crabapple, J.M. DeMatteis, Charlie Adlard, Steve Niles, Amanda Palmer.
For distribution of Occupy Comics, Pizzolo joined 30 Days of Night writer-creator Steve Niles and Epitaph Records owner/Bad Religion guitarist-songwriter Brett Gurewitz to form Black Mask Studios with the mandate of developing new ways to support creators and reach broader audiences beyond fandom. [3]
Pizzolo is currently working with Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk on the second part of the Godkiller trilogy Godkiller: Tomorrow's Ashes (following 2010's Godkiller: Walk Among Us). The new comic book series debuted in January 2012.
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Threat (2006)
Directed by Matt Pizzolo
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Rating49%
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Threat (2006)
Directed by Matt Pizzolo
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Roles Writer
Rating49%
Producer
Threat (2006)
Directed by Matt Pizzolo
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Roles Producer
Rating49%
N.Y.H.C. (1999)
, 1h27Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentary films about cities
Roles Producer
Rating70%
One of the few documentaries focusing on the hardcore music scene of one city (after the genre became much less tied to, and a subgenre of punk rock), N.Y.H.C. featured seven bands prominent in the mid-90s scene. A diverse grouping was selected, from Long Island suburbanites to Bronx inner-city youth to Hare Krishna devotees.