by Joey Daoud | Nov 23, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
The days of Farmer Arable and Wilbur are long gone. One of the main locations in Undercover is a pig farm, where a Muslim cop goes undercover to find a missing pig. So, as Producer, I need to find this pig farm. In the process of this hunt I learned about the state of...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 16, 2008 | Career, Film School
If you survived the 2 years in Film School, you’ll do fine in Hollywood. Said by Ali Bell, visiting alumni. Sorry I can’t write more, I’m in the midst of a perfect storm and potential breakdown (Update: storm has passed). But on another note, I...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 12, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
It’s funny how much I take film slang for granted. So to start from the beginning, there are six stages in making and releasing a movie: Development, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production, Distribution, Exhibition. Usually Development can take the longest...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 11, 2008 | Career, Film School
Ali Bell, 30 vp production and development Montecito Picture Co. Not everybody can trace their film career to their mother’s love of John Singleton’s “Boyz n the Hood.” “It was a combination of the acting, the cinematography and the way...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 10, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
This is the craziest film set I’ve seen on the soundstage. After emerging from a dark editing room around midnight, I was told to check out the trench. I had heard someone was making a WWI trench movie. I didn’t know it was a trench epic. I can’t...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 7, 2008 | Film Festival
This is a little montage of the video clips I shot while at TIFF. The people we’re having dinner with at the end (divided by the drinking straw) are Cherie Saulter and Justin Barber, both Film School alumni who produced “Medicine for Melancholy,”...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 6, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid, Movies
Just when I thought there would be a dry period of stories after I graduate ((More on this soon)), Thoth gives me a goldmine. I’ve been asked by a recent graduate to co-produce a short film she just received funding for. This film (tentatively title...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 4, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
I’m not going to tell you to vote – you already know to do that. But here are some added benefits for bubbling or touching the ballot. Bring your “I Voted” sticker into Krispy Kreme and get a free star-shaped doughnut with patriotic colored...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 2, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
A film school Halloween obviously has to have character related costumes. Above, characters from Watchmen. Below, me as Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. I had a lot of fun Goodwill hunting. It reminded me of production designing again. Unfortunately I don’t believe...
by Joey Daoud | Oct 30, 2008 | Career
At the beginning of the summer I had mentioned how I stumbled on the set of Confessions of a Shopaholic and through a couple degrees of someone who knows someone, I was put in touch with the Location Manager of the show Burn Notice and invited to come out to the set....
