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Matt Pizzolo

Matt Pizzolo (born on Long Island, New York) is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, producer, comic book writer, playwright, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as creator of the transmedia franchise Godkiller, writer-director of the indie movie Threat, and director of music videos for Atari Teenage Riot.He is the organizer of the Occupy Comics project, creators of DiY-Fest, co-founder of Kings Mob Productions with filmmaking partner Katie Nisa, and also runs indie film studio HALO 8 Entertainment and the comic book publisher Black Mask Studios with partners Brett Gurewitz and Steve Niles.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.