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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
