Interview with Filmmaker Sean Parker (WORD ON THE STREET)

WORD ON THE STREET was the winner of BEST FILM at the March 2020 COMEDY Film Festival in Toronto.

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Sean Parker: We’ve made films together for about 20 years, including a lot of silly, low-key sketches for YouTube, and with Word on the Street, we wanted more of a showcase piece.

Before we made this, we’d taken a lot of time off from our creative projects to do client work apart from each other, and we each “leveled up” our skillset. So there was a strong desire to get back to doing our silly thing together in a way that showed what we were currently capable of.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this short?

We wrote it in 2014, where it lingered for a while on our “shoot this…