MARSHMALLOW REVIEWS
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MARSHMALLOW REVIEWS
| "This
film is amazing and powerful. I loved the grainy look. It was very raw
and hard hitting."
- comments from the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival (WBFF), New York . |
| "I
liked the the rawness...extremely hard...a strong piece."
.- Marco Ursino Festival Director, Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival (WBFF), New York . |
| "You
are a brave, prolific film maker and have taken a risk making this film.
It forces you to think and deal with this issue that happens every day.
Thank you."
- comments from a female audience member at the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival (WBFF), New York . |
| """I
cried during the screening"
- Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival (WBFF), New York . |
| "I
was surprised that women came up to me after the festival and shared their
stories of similar situations. I felt honoured that they would feel comfortable
talking about these personal issues with me and thanking me afterwards.
There is a life in this film that I did not expect."
- nathan fleet, director . |
| "Actually
the audience was stunned by your work..
.not a peep out of them through the whole thing...verydisturbing..." - Good Luck and Best Wishes...Al Nigrin, E. Dir/Curator Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC . |
| "In
a different vein is Marshmallow, a shocking poignant film about a
sexual predator: it will surely fan the flames of the Megan's Law
controversy
- Josh Appelbaum, Inside Beat / The Daily Targum - New Jersey . |
| A pedantic
simplicity of action reduces extreme violence to the
mundane when three characters - a pedophile, a jogger and a little girl - unconsciously collude in this bleak and painful reminder of the alarming impact of action. - Vancouver Underground Film Festival, BC |
| This Super
8 film is a very disturbing look at the abduction of a child from a city
park, using visual suggestion, sound and thoughtful edits to convey the
menace, violence and loss inherent in this scenario.
- Antimatter Film Festival - Victoria, BC |
| "...too
edgy."
- Donovan Aikman Programmer/Administrator Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival . |
| "I
have showed the video to most of my family and a couple friends, my father
started to cry!"
-Kimberlie Dufresne, sound editor . |
| "Very
emotional and raw. It's quite an accomplishment in short story telling.
So much is said in so little time. - good luck with your next projects."
- gary, commenting after viewing it at ifilm.com . |
| You
have been promoted to Phase 2 of FilmFilm's New Directors Competition.Because
of the quality of your work on "Marshmallow," you are invited tosubmit
to us the screenplay you would like to direct next. You don't have tobe
the writer of the script, but you must have the rights to direct it.
-filmfilm.com |