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“Eventually you’re just reading about productivity and how to be productive, instead of actually doing anything productive,” Joey Daoud, director and producer of life hacking documentary “You 2.0,” said in a phone interview.

“People are trying to find the Holy Grail, hoping that one trick is going to solve all their problems … but at the end of the day, life hacking is just hard work and determination to organize your stuff and get everything done—at the end of the day it’s just determination,” Daoud said.

via Life Hacking Becoming an Antiproductivity Vortex | Technology | Epoch Times.

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Bots High on Huffington Post

Larry Bock: Bots High Robotics Documentary – STEM, Gender Gaps, And Future Engineers In High School.

Check out the great article on Bots High in the Huffington Post!

Most movies that bring robots to the big screen do so in heavy sci-fi, big budget fashion, such as the Transformers franchise or I, Robot. What about robots in a contemporary documentary, one that inspires STEM education? Bots High is a film that does so, following high school robot builders for a year as they design, build, and compete head to head in robot battles, while learning valuable lessons along the way in their quest to build to best robot in the nation.

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I’ll be writing a lot more about this distribution model I’m trying over at Coffee and Celluloid, but in the meantime check out Bots High and join a free screening.

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Bots High in Robot Magazine

For their November/December issue, Robot magazine did a four page article on my film Bots High, along with the backstory and production insight. Check it out here!

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Bots High Robotics Documentary Trailer

Bots High Combat Robotics Documentary – Trailer #1 from Joey Daoud on Vimeo.

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DP for WLRN

Here are three recent pieces that aired on WLRN where I was Director of Photography.

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PBS – Karen Peterson Dancers

This is a piece I produced that aired last month on WLRN (Miami’s PBS). It’s on Karen Peterson, whose dance group is mixed ability, that is dancers both with and without wheelchairs. I was also DP and editor on the piece.

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Miami Herald Article [Press]

For South Beach resident Joey Daoud, a 22-year-old filmmaker and photojournalist, the opportunity is one that gives him a unique venue for his work and a chance at widespread marketing. “It’s just great exposure,” Daoud said. “Even more than selling stuff, it’s the exposure.” Local artists get the opportunity to be seen during Art Basel

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