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Name:
Donald Matos
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May 29, 2008
Latest Activity:
May 29, 2008
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Producer-Writer-Director
About Me:
Donald is shooting the pilot for his own outrageous TV-online talk-sketch comedy-variety show, which is a larger-than-life comic circus hosted by a modern day Charlie Chaplin.
Donald is also working on turning his two recent screenplays, Angels of Gold and No Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, into feature films.
Angels of Gold, a comedy-of-errors heist caper, received very favorbale coverage at a major film company and is currently being considered there with a cast of stars. The story is based on true events in Donald's life. It is about an incorrigible schemer and his ex-flame who instigate a gold heist involving very dangerous professionals that unravels into an outrageous quest for love, wealth, and redemption.
No Father, Son, or Holy Ghost is an urban drama that was selected by The Sundance Institute for the final round of its Screenwriters Lab. An Academy Award-nominated actor has already offered to play a supporting role in the project. The story is an urban drama about a father who overcomes his sense of failure as a man when he tries to save his runaway sons from a life on the streets. This is a personal story drawn from Donald's life experience as a Puerto Rican-Italian growing up in a turbulent family on the East Coast.
Donald is currently writing a spy comedy with great franchise potential, as he was a spy and is now a comedian and the owner of a McDonald's.
Furthermore, as Donald has multiple personality disorder, when he thinks he is asleep, Donald is also writing a novel entitled Confessions of a Fast Food Educator, which he will turn into a screenplay and a feature film. The story is about his outrageous experiences as a school director fighting for his students and the spirit of education.
Donald is Founder and CEO of his own film, television, and Internet production company, One-Cinema, Inc. He is also Founder and CEO of The Institute for New Cinema and its non-profit Cultural Center.
Donald has won awards in screenwriting and filmmaking, including the prestigious FOCUS Award for his film The Other Side. His work has been recognized by such notable organizations as the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Sundance Institute, the American Film Institute, the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the FOCUS Awards. He was trained as a director by Delia Salvi, one of Lee Strasberg's most respected disciples and an active member of the famed Actors Studio.
Donald has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Film Production from UCLA.
Donald's cinematic influences are: Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bunuel, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Andrzej Wajda, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Zhang Yimou, and Chen Kaige.
Donald admires the lives of: Lao Tzu, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Lord David Puttnam, and his mother, Lucille Matos.
Contact: OneCineMatos@gmail.com
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Producer-Writer-Director
Companies:
One-Cinema, Inc.
Interests:
Transformation, Anarchism, Civil Liberty, Cinema, Education, Healthcare, Art, Music, Literature, Science, Religion, Business, Politics, Peace, Social Justice, The New York Yankees
Movies:
The Hurt Locker, Precious, The Celebration, Pixote, The Bicycle Thief, The Conformist, The Conversation, City Lights, The Rules of the Game, Raging Bull, A Clockwork Orange, Vertigo, Seven Samurai, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Films of Zhang Yimou, Akira Kurosawa, and Chen Kaige
Music:
Beethoven, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Mumford & Sons, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Lou Reed, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Elis Regina, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Tom Jones, Peter Gabriel, The Clash, U2, The Cranberries, Miles Davis
Books:
Tao Te Ching, Hamlet, The Glass Bead Game, Crime and Punishment, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Conversations with God, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Think and Grow Rich
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." -- Mother Teresa