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- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Mathew Fisher is an award-winning, underground filmmaker from Massachusetts. Who's been building up his filmography and audience, producing films in the range of anywhere from $10k to $300k in and around the east coast area. In the early 2000's he started making short films and compilation videos using his families high 8 camcorder, after years of shooting family events. Once acquiring his own camera, he continued with the shorts and during this time he also started directing music videos and documenting live musical acts that came into Boston on tour as well as acts already apart of the underground music community. He's worked with a full spectrum of budgets and studios from Troma Entertainment and Full Moon Features all the way to Columbia Pictures and the TLC network. His work has reached overseas acclaim at film festivals and collaborations with artists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland, France, Mexico, Argentina back to the States and Canada. He continues to write, direct and produce for himself and other filmmakers under the BoomBastic Films brand. In 2017 a podcasting and web show branch was added, at this moment there's over ten shows on the BoomBastic Media Network.- IMDb Mini Biography By: HipHop Anonymous
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Grew up with artists, his grandparents were both painters.
- Has said his favorite director is Stanley Kubrick.
- Started his Production Company BoomBastic Films in 2002.
- Got his start shooting short films with his family's VHS camcorder before saving up and purchasing his own Hi-8 camera at the age of 14.
- Most of the final scenes in his first feature Stupa-Man (2008) were shot on the roof of the famous Troma Building in Manhattan, NY.
- I never went to film school, Stupa-Man was my film school.
- I find doing small acting jobs in other people's projects brings me closer to an actor or actress while directing them, It helps me get on the same page as them a lot quicker.
- [on Lloyd Kaufman and his involvement in Stupa-man] Man, I love Lloyd... When I first started out and I couldn't get the time of day from friends or family let alone real actors and crew he invited us up to the TROMA building in New York to shoot our scenes. He gave us a tour of the TROMA facilities, gave us some advice on promoting the film and free movies... Knowing it then and looking back now Lloyd didn't have to give us his time he did it because he's a stand up dude that deserves all the praise he gets and maybe a little of the BS, just a little ... I'll forever hold him as an influence, a friend and one of the most supportive people I've met in this crazy film world.
- [on the Exorcist] Scariest movie of all time... Absolutely horrifying! Growing up in a religious house like I did and being raised that the devil is real and not someone to be played with watching this film and seeing the images like the crucifix masturbation scene and hearing some of the shit they had coming out of her mouth. It was insane, it made me feel uncomfortable sitting in a room alone watching it. I loved it.
- [on Dangerous filmmakers/films] I used to hear that term thrown around a lot and never really found a film that could fit that mold until I seen Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left these films really glamorize this disturbed way of living, painting these incredible anti-hero's in a almost positive light. Much like Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers where the films anti heroes Mickey and Mallory come off as like Charles Manson type martyr's in a mentally unstable world fighting for the forgotten and pushed around ... Add the soundtracks that boost a happy, warm and fuzzy feeling in your soul. More so with Last House but I remember watching both films thinking Wow these films could be dangerous in the wrong hands or rather the wrong minds of some sick people.
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