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 | 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...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 2, 2008 | Career
This is the last 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 Part two, Part three, and Part four. Saturday...
