by Joey Daoud | Jan 25, 2009 | Marketing
The Cobra: Inside a Movie Marketer’s Playbook – The New Yorker This article from The New Yorker is one of the best things on marketing I’ve ever read. Yes, it’s a bit long, but if you’re interested in the business side of movies...
by Joey Daoud | Jan 14, 2009 | Distribution, Exhibition, Film Business
Two articles from indieWIRE got me thinking this morning. The first is from the all too familiar Geoffrey Gilmore in ‘Evolution v. Revolution, The State of Independent Film & Festivals.’ A lot of it echoes Mark Gill’s much buzzed ‘The Sky...
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 | Jul 15, 2008 | Documentary, Film Business
Below are my notes from the one panel I attended at Full Frame – The State of the Doc. It’s a little more cheerful than Mark Gill’s outlook on independent cinema, though re-reading this now, some panelists seemed to be predicting what was going to...
