by Joey Daoud | Apr 15, 2008 | Documentary, Film Festival
Perhaps a little heavy for a 10 AM screening, with an occasional missing head and dead body, I still enjoyed My Daughter the Terrorist. It’s about the civil war in Sri-Lanka – a war I didn’t know was happening. Labeled by the world as terrorists, the...
by Joey Daoud | Apr 14, 2008 | Editing, Film School
The storm has calmed. Last week really was the perfect storm, as my friend Justin and I described it ((I wanted to post the clip from The Office when Pam needs Michael to sign three forms that fall on the same day every few months, thus creating her perfect storm....
by Joey Daoud | Apr 7, 2008 | Film Festival
“Full Frame is my Holy Grail, more than Sundance,” I overhear from a guy sitting behind me before a film starts. “Did you go to Sundance?” “No.” While I’m in the same position as Mr. King Arthur behind me, having not attended...
by Joey Daoud | Apr 3, 2008 | Film Festival
I raved about the great experience I had last year at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, so it’s no surprise that I am returning this year with a few classmates who felt the same way. I’m leaving tomorrow, the day the festival starts. Armed with a...
by Joey Daoud | Mar 30, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
This is the home stretch – the last cycle of sound design. For eight days I’m back in the post hallway/cave, sound designing my own movie. I appreciate the importance of sound. An audience can forgive bad images, but not bad sound. But for some reason, I...
