by Joey Daoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Links, Movies
Flickchart aims to answer one long plaguing question – if so many movies are rated five stars, which one’s the best? Yes, AFI tried to answer that question. But Citizen Kane? Really? It was his stupid sled. Flickchart’s method is painfully simple....
by Joey Daoud | Jul 10, 2008 | Career, Film Business, Film School
This is part four of a five part adventure that involves driving Geoffrey Gilmore (the Director of the Sundance Film Festival) around Tallahassee, Diet Cokes, private jets, The Visitor, tea, a 4 am flight, and of course, coffee. Part one and Part two, and Part three....
by Joey Daoud | Jul 8, 2008 | Career, Video Apps
With graduation looming closer and more people asking me what I want to do, I need to come up with a more concrete answer. Director or produce? Fiction or documentary? With the way the summer’s been going, I’m leaning towards producing. As for fiction and...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 4, 2008 | Career, Film School
This is part three of a five part adventure that involves driving Geoffrey Gilmore (the Director of the Sundance Film Festival) around Tallahassee, Diet Cokes, private jets, The Visitor, tea, a 4 am flight, and of course, coffee. Part one and Part two. Geoffrey, the...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 2, 2008 | Links
Contests Cinema Prosprite – $35,000 in Prizes Awarded to Top Videos Profiling Entrepreneurs Riding on the waves of micro-loans, this short doc contest is for films profiling an entrepreneur (they don’t explicitly say, but it seems they want entrepreneurs...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 1, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid
As noted before, it’s back to producing mode. This is the same director that I produced The Treasonist for (where I got a free bus and Dodge Magnum). Here’s the one-line synopsis: A messenger in the Napoleonic Wars contemplates his future after...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 30, 2008 | Career, Film School
This is part two of a five part adventure that involves Geoffrey Gilmore, the Director of the Sundance Film Festival, driving around Tallahassee, Diet Cokes, private jets, The Visitor, tea, a 4 am flight, and of course, coffee. Part one. For the mode of...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 27, 2008 | Career, Film Business
Geoffrey Gilmore is actually more of a tea drinker. While his name probably doesn’t sound very familiar (unless you’re thinking of Happy), Mr. Gilmore has had a hand in launching the careers and films of practically every famous independent film and...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 26, 2008 | Video Apps, Video Production
It’s back to producing mode, so here’s one of my favorite and least expensive tools: the Ikea Big Blue Bag. About a year or so ago, Ikea started charging five cents for plastic bags. So I picked up three of these for 59 cents each (and snuck one of the...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 24, 2008 | Cameras, Film School
In a perfect film set world (real world), you shoot for the day, send the film to the lab that night to be processed, return the next day, shoot some more, and then during lunch (or beginning/end of the day), you watch what you shot the previous day. These are called...
