by Joey Daoud | Sep 7, 2008 | Film Festival
Last Stop 174 aims to tell the human side of the bus hijacking in 2000 in Rio de Janeiro. The film felt very real and was like a portrait of a world. It reminded me of City of God, something that was brought up a lot (the main actor was even in City of God). It was...
by Joey Daoud | Sep 7, 2008 | Film Festival
My lack of pop culture (mainly sports) knowledge strikes again. I saw More Than a Game, a doc where filmmaker Kristopher Belman followed a high school basketball team in his hometown that happened to have a young, up-and-coming player named LeBron James, enabling...
by Joey Daoud | Sep 7, 2008 | Film Festival
YouTube – Moment of Zen with Paul and Belly Dancer.
by Joey Daoud | Sep 6, 2008 | Film Festival
Here’s a quick, on the move post. Didn’t see any movies yesterday, but it was still a great day. We met the donor that sponsored our trip at her gorgeous house and garden right in the middle of Toronto. After chilling in the industry internet lounge and...
by Joey Daoud | Sep 5, 2008 | Film Festival
Despite having my name called over the speakers on the airplane before take off and my passport taken by security, we managed to make it to Toronto (the passport was returned and I never found out what that was about). We even made it in time to pick up our industry...
by Joey Daoud | Sep 2, 2008 | Film Festival
Bad news: I went down from #3 to #too-far-for-me-to-count on the Toronto International Film Festival blog list. Maybe I should start with the good news. Coffee and Celluloid is listed as one of the blogs for TIFF. I’m not sure if that’s any sort of...
by Joey Daoud | Sep 1, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
Pensive Directing I’ve only briefly mentioned the production of my thesis (the fictional one), and after having about a month to think it over, and finally seeing the dailies four weeks after filming (monthlies?), I have an idea of where I stand with the...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 29, 2008 | Exhibition, Film Business
State of the Fest | Part one: Do festivals matter? – The Circuit In the pantheon of viable choices for getting your film seen, film festivals continue to thrive (seems there’s a new one born every minute, right?), and that’s because, putting aside economic...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 27, 2008 | Career, Distribution, Film Business, Marketing
To continue my tail of un-hiring woes, we must first go back a few months to the first time I drove Geoffrey Gilmore around. As I said in summation, driving Geoffrey around brought me a lot closer to Paul Cohen, an independent distributor ((That means he buys films...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 27, 2008 | Documentary, Movies
I loved this movie. It was by far my favorite film at Full Frame. I’ve noted before how I’m on the fence about going into narratives or docs. This proved you can accomplish both. Following four high school seniors, American Teen was like watching all the...
