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the New Jersey Nets have themselves a motivational speaker

Paul Galichia — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:03:55 +0000

I’m not sure if you’ve been paying attention, but the 2009-2010 New Jersey Nets are on their way to becoming the worst basketball team in NBA history. They started the season 0-19, setting a record for the poorest start in league history, and have won 4 games since – which is sort of miraculous, because, I mean… they’re awful. So how does this relate to SpeakEasy? In our film, we have a small section (for now) about motivational speakers, and indeed the World Championships of Public Speaking could be looked at as an amateur motivational speaking contest. Most speeches are, at least, written to impart life wisdom and help the audience in some or another. And so, a motivational speaker has come to rescue the New Jersey Nets! Let’s keep track of it and see if it works! Can a powerful speaker help a team block out, hit open three pointers, make the extra pass, not turn the ball over, etc.? We shall see….

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who had the best acceptance speeches tonight?

Paul Galichia — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:40 +0000

I missed the awards – leave a comment and let us know who impressed!

lotsa lotsa lotsa notes

Paul Galichia — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:24:33 +0000

Over the weekend we started to give the editor our notes – this is no time to screw around, we went shot by shot, piece by piece, pulling apart almost every note of the film and making sure it’s being questioned, justified, and put in the exact right place. Painstaking, but we have the big picture right now. Most of the structure is ready… now it’s time to dig in again and do this. We basically want more of the drama that was the World Championships of Public Speaking than we wanted fear of public speaking. We’re trying to make two films become one.

However, we need more stories of bad public speaking moments!! Anything! This documentary film about the fear of public speaking and the World Championships of Public Speaking needs your help!!

In the meantime, there’s more of this going on every minute of the day:

Prison Toastmasters is now perfect

Paul Galichia — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:30 +0000

We’re so glad you enjoyed the Prison Toastmasters clip we posted yesterday. However, we failed to notice a couple typos in the clip. This is the spell checked, perfect version of Prison Toastmasters. If you posted any comments yesterday about Prison Toastmasters, we love if you could repost them again. Thank you all so much for the great feedback!

Brian and our intern Beca edited this little promo/short from the prison footage we shot for SpeakEasy. It’s not going to be in the final film, so, I mean, we went and shot it for god’s sake, might as well do SOMETHING with it, right? So here’s a little glimpse inside the prison walls. We would like to turn this into a full blow feature about the Forgotten Voices, so if you know how to get financing for something like that…. cough cough wink wink… let’s do it.

Special thanks to the staffs and inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary @Angola and California State Prison @Norco. And special thanks to Frances Morrison, the honorable Robert Downing, and Lt. Michael Brownell at Norco for all their help. Hope you enjoy watching and please feel free to comment on this clip. Thanks! Join our community!!! Sign up for the e-newsletter for updates!!!!

Prison Toastmasters from SpeakEasy Movie on Vimeo.

The bullpen is active

Paul Galichia — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:53:06 +0000

We met with a very esteemed editor on Wednesday night, and the energy in the room was sizzle electric. I love being around people who are bouncing off the walls with creativity and thoughts and ideas and problem solving energy. These filmmakers need it. Since we don’t have the deal signed yet, and there’s a little bit of the paperwork, etc etc. to finish, we’ll hold back. But man, it’s fun to have him around. It’s comforting to know that the film is good, I think anyway, and only going to get better from here on out. Thrilled and relieved.

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and… just to channel positive energy…

Paul Galichia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:19:07 +0000