The Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival is now live on Vimeo, and will run through June 1st. If you are interested in checking out our film The Bride (along with the other indie shorts that are being screened), here is the link: Checkout.liftoff.network/judges-select-shorts-tokyo-lift-off-2025/
You also have the option to cast a vote for your favorite film, if you are moved to do so. Here’s to creating and supporting indie cinema!
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001.
He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
John Biscello 