Matt Pizzolo

Matt Pizzolo (born on Long Island, New York) is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and producer. 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 writer-director of the indie movie Threat and creator of the transmedia franchise Godkiller, 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, and runs indie film studio HALO 8 Entertainment. In addition, Pizzolo writes under a variety of pseudonyms.

Pizzolo is known for mixing new technologies with film, most recently unveiling a 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.

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.

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.