With Award-Winning filmmaker Matthew Bonifacio!

Matthew will help you master the audition by working closely with you on your scene or monologue. He really focuses on the actor's individual needs so they are able to showcase their best work.

MATTHEW'S RECENT CLIENT BOOKINGS & CALLBACKS INCLUDE:

• SEX IN THE CITY 2 (WARNER BROS.) • ONE LIFE TO LIVE (ABC) • AS THE WORLD TURNS (CBS) • THE GOOD WIFE (CBS) • NURSE JACKIE (SHOWTIME) • BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO) • MARMADUKE (20th CENTURY FOX)

"Realistic performances and genuine emotions make Matthew Bonifacio's quiet charmer AMEXICANO much more than just another preachy treatise on illegal immigration."
-- Laura Kern, The New York Times
 
"Matthew Bonifacio, whose work has played the city’s film festivals, does the kind of thing filmmakers like Edward Burns always hoped to do but never quite accomplished."
-- Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

"Constantly unpredictable yet totally organic."
"Indeed all the thesping is excellent...(a pitch-perfect Raul Castillo)."
-- Ronnie Scheib, Variety

 

Matthew Bonifacio was born, raised and resides in Brooklyn, New York. His directing, writing and producing feature debut, Lbs., premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Alfred P. Sloan Award. Lbs. screened at many festivals, winning Best Feature Film awards at the Deep Ellum Film Festival and Avignon/New York Film Festival.

At the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival’s first annual Tropfest@Tribeca, co-jurors Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts awarded Mr. Bonifacio’s short, The Watering Hole, the Grand Jury Prize. Mr. Bonifacio directed, co-wrote and produced the film. The award jury also included Darren Aronofsky, Caroline Baron, Famke Janssen, Anthony LaPaglia and Charles Randolph.

Mr. Bonifacio directed and produced his second feature film, Amexicano which made its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Amexicano, acquired by Maya Releasing (Sleep Dealer, August Evening), was theatrically released in the fall of ‘08. The film received positive reviews in The New York Times, New York Daily News and Variety. Amexicano is now available on DVD via Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster, Walmart and Target.

Short film credits include: From Woodside, Queens (Oscar-qualifying Aspen Shortsfest 2004); Bagelized! (Oscar-qualifying 2006 Palms Springs Shortsfest, Oscar-qualifying Aspen Shortsfest 2005) and New Boobs (Seattle International Film Group’s 2006 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot), which was one of six projects commissioned by AtomFilms Studio. With over 1 million plays, New Boobs is the most viewed commissioned short by AtomFilms of all-time. AtomFilms partners include Comedy Central, Spike TV, and is a service of MTV Networks.

Mr. Bonifacio has directed and produced commercials for Major League Baseball/Verizon, DRI (starring Sugar Ray Leonard), Ad Council's Campaign For Freedom, HSBC, Vonage and others. He directed, wrote and produced, Open Up, an Anti-Racism PSA, which won a Telly Award, Cine Golden Eagle Award and at the Intercom/Chicago International Film Festival he won a Special Achievement Award for Direction.

Mr. Bonifacio served on the award jury at the 2nd Annual Tropfest@Tribeca 2007 with Josh Lucas, Griffin Dunne, Rose Byrne, Tom McCarthy, Mary Harron and Bennett Miller.
Mr. Bonifacio directed, wrote and produced a new short (currently in post) starring Carmine Famiglietti, Neil Jain and Federico Castelluccio.

Upcoming feature film projects included, Luka, Brickhead, Bloom and The Untitled Jason Vale Project.

Check out Mathew's movie trailers: www.LBSTHEMOVIE.com www.apple.com/trailers/independent/amexicano/

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