[Director/Co-Writer/Producer] “Visionary director Matt Pizzolo takes a harsh look at what it means to be a disaffected youth, showing that the promised land of opportunity and the American dream are relics of the past.” (–McGill Daily)

[Director/Co-Writer/Producer] Jim & Fred’s doomed friendship (5 mins). “In the spirit of Suburbia, Threat is a refreshing movie… unafraid to be awkward and honest about the multicultural urban experience of intelligent young adults who are pissed about being placed at the end of the food chain.” (–Urb Magazine)

[Director/Co-Writer/Producer] One of the longer dialogue scenes of street philosophy from THREAT, circa the 90s. [4+ mins] “Fierce emotions have yielded a fervid film. The film shows what adults portraying kids never seem to be able to portray: their complexity.” (–LI Voice)

[Director/Co-Writer/Producer] Full scene: formation of the hardline gang O.L.D. [2+ mins] “All inevitable comparisons to KIDS aside, this way-low budget hardcore drama about youth gone wild takes the reckless abandon of Larry Clark’s gritty, often-cited modern chestnut and does it one better.”
(–Cinematical)

[Director/Co-Writer/Producer] Threat ending sequence. [90 secs] “Unflinching, THREAT isn’t subtle about its politics. The film is a scathing critique of the institutional and cultural divisions the adult world imposes on kids.”
(–Revolution Magazine)