With a tight budget I'm always a big fan of turning to Elance to outsource some work. I've had interviews transcribed with timecode reference, After Effects animation, and poster design done. Now I needed some subtitles for Bots High. I knew this would need a higher...
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The Free Film Distribution Experiment of Bots High
Great film! - Handwritten note on a festival rejection letter The above note sums up the festival experience of my feature film Bots High quite well. A film that people who see, love, yet didn't get much traction on the festival circuit. It played at some festivals,...
Bots High Wins Best Documentary at IFF
Coffee and Celluloid Production's feature documentary Bots High will be playing at the Independents' Film Festival in Tampa September 17, and was just announced that it will receive the Best Documentary award that evening. Director Joey Daoud and Editor Andrew...
Bots High on IndieWire and Laughing Squid
CCP Creates Commissioned Short Doc for Beck’s
Director Joey Daoud from CCP was commissioned to create a short documentary on the playful artist group FriendsWithYou for the Beck’s Green Box project. The Green Box project is an innovative project from Beck’s that places large, glowing, green boxes in various...
Return to the Island (Not the Cork, Hispanola)
I'm gearing up for an early Monday morning flight to Port-au-Prince, finally returning to Haiti. It's been a year and a half since the earthquake and nearly two and a half years since I was there for the first time. This time I'm returning (along with two awesome...
5 Examples to Turn Photos to Movies that are Not the Ken Burns Effect
While not usually a problem for fiction films (unless it's a stylistic choice), most documentaries find the only visual media available for some parts of the film are still photos. The most common method that comes to mind to add movement to still photos is the Ken...
STRIKE – CCP’s New Film
Less than two months ago I was sitting on the couch, going through the weekly Longreads newsletter, when the first article just grabbed me and pulled me in. The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever. As a kid I bowled a lot, so when a story about bowling comes across my...
On the road to Texas
On August 8 we hit the road from Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, to Plano, Texas, to shoot the short documentary Strike (www.strikethemovie.com). Here’s a recap of some of the stops we made along the way.