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Directing Actors Advice from Jeremiah Daws Part 2

Posted by Emmet Gibney on July 5th, 2008

This is the second part of a two part post that was contributed by Jeremiah Daws, co-director of  “Dangerous Calling” alongside his brother Josh Daws.  Visit their website Adventures in Filmmaking to follow along in their journey to super stardom.  This part includes Jeremiah’s review of “Directing Actors” by Judith Weston.
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I had always considered the option of being in the entertainment industry, but never really considered it a plausible one. That is until I read Robert Rodriguez’s book “Rebel without a Crew” and decided that is what I wanted to do. I have always known that I was going to be a businessman, [...]

Book Review of “On Directing Film” by David Mamet

Posted by Emmet Gibney on February 13th, 2006

This past weekend I made my way to Indigo (kind of like Borders in the USA) and bought myself a couple books, one of which was “On Directing Film” by David Mamet. David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and a director. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his play “Glengarry Glen [...]