Biagio

Biagio married way out of his league when he bamboozled Joke into saying "I do." Together he and his wife produce television, film, a podcast, and anything else that requires no sleep and a touch of crazy. Find Biagio connecting with you on Twitter, putting out video on Youtube, liking what you do on Facebook, and trying to understand Google+.

A Little R and R in Rome

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Taking a little vacation to start the new year. Be back next week. Until then, hope you’re all having a great 2011. Best, Joke and Biagio

Seasons Greetings from the Dying to do Letterman Team

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Whoah, whoah, whoah…looks like there was too much egg nog at the Joke Productions holiday party. Anyway, here’s a wacky, quickly put together, and probably unwisely finished holiday greeting from the gang working on Dying to do Letterman.

Prove Dreams Matter

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Today We Launched the Dying to do Letterman Web Site Please come visit, watch the video, and leave your email. Not sure what the movie’s all about? Steve was told he had incurable liver cancer, and might only have five years to live. He gave the middle finger to cancer, and decided to live his … Read more

Dying to Tell You About Our Movie

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For the past six years we’ve been working on our passion project, a self-funded, feature-length documentary called Dying to do Letterman. Five years of shooting. One year of editing. Eighty minutes that represents our very best as filmmakers. The still frame above is from today’s shoot with Steve, in which he finally reveals what you … Read more

Dying to do Letterman Facebook Page

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Just a quick post to let you know that the Facebook page for our documentary, Dying to do Letterman, is up and live. We’re spilling our guts about all kinds of good, meaty, documentary-making gossip. Plus, the movie is something we hope anyone can feel good about. The message is simple: Live your dream, or … Read more

Filmmaking On Tilt

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While we’ve been in our cave editing Dying to do Letterman, one of the projects we funded a while back via Kickstarter, TILT, has been knee-deep in editing as well. Coming up for air today, we were excited to see this! Here’s the sweet looking trailer for TILT from Phil, Julie, and Jessica: Congrats, Team … Read more

Indie Ideas: Build Your Street Team

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Raymond-Did-It-at-Joke-and-Biagio.jpgJust a quick post about an indie working hard to get his movie out there, and being creative in his approach.

Travis Legge, an aspiring horror film writer and director, took his career into his own hands by making Raymond Did It, an ultra-low-budget horror film.

Considering he had no money, the trailer looks really good. Plus, he was smart enough to reach out to, and cast, two of our former Scream Queens in Raymond Did It.

Travis is Building a Street Team

To help distribute his movie himself, and get the word out, Travis is selling Raymond Did It Street Team Shirts. The idea is to earn some extra money to help release the film, and at the same time use that age old “walking billboard” tactic to spread the word.

But it’s Just a Tee Shirt, Right?

We all get free tee-shirts, all the time, at trade shows, fairs, you name it. And honestly, a free tee-shirt just doesn’t mean all that much. I mean, really, do you wear your free tee-shirts anywhere you actually want to be seen?

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Whiz! Bam! Pow! Our Featured IndieGoGo Project

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If you’ve been around our blog, you know we like to support indie filmmakers whenever we can. Today’s post is an interview with cutting-edge indie, Tyler Weaver, who also runs an awesome blog called Multi-Hyphenate.

Whiz!Bam!Pow!

With what may be the most action-packed title of all time, Tyler is creating a “transmedia” experience, and he’s using IndieGoGo as a tool to raise funds and awareness for his project.

Trans-huh?

Entertainment is changing at a rapid pace, and Tyler Weaver’s bravely living on the bloodiest bleeding edge. Take a look at his pitch video for Whiz!Bam!Pow! and read his info-packed interview below.

What Tyler Weaver’s doing with Whiz!Bam!Pow! just may be your sneak peek at the future of indie-storytelling.

BTW, on Twitter? Follow Tyler @tylerweaver, and of if you’re not already, please follow us @JokeAndBiagio.

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Free Film Festival Secrets

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Just a quick post to tell you about an incredible free resource we stumbled upon recently. It’s the site of Christopher Holland, Film Festival Secrets . Not only is his site jam-packed with information to give you film festival success, but Mr. Holland has written a free e-book that is the must-download free e-book of … Read more