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SUNSHOWAH

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EYE JAMMY TEASER, check out our REEL, peep the teaser SUNSHOWAH***********************************"EYEJAMMY" featured in the JUNE 26 2006 newsweek issue********Daoud Abeid and Dahkil Hausif formed Sunshowah in 1999 out of a need to counteract one dimensional images depicting urban life on screen. Merging a love of film, street knowledge, and a passion for hiphop culture and music. Daoud and Dahkil met at Syracuse University where they both pursued degrees in television and film production. After graduating they carried their mutual interests further and became business partners. Sunshowah's built its solid reputation by working on multimedia projects ranging from television to the web. Their first project, a documentary called "Justice Executed", explored the controversial case surrounding death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. In collaboration with The Source magazine, Abeid and Hausif contributed on the production of a second documentary called "Joe Gotta Go" which premiered at New York City's Urban World Film Festival. Staying true to their roots Abeid and Hausif used hiphop as a vehicle to showcase their versatility and willingness to take creative risks. Their first film rev'o.lu,shun won best short in the 2002 Philadelpia International Fim Festival (philafilm). They produced segments and interviews with rap artists, Jay-z, Talib Kweli, and KRS-ONE among others for Ralph McDaniels renowned video show Video Music Box. Sunshowah eventually headed the writing, production and editing of McDaniels' internet live stream television show, Video Music Box online where many artists including 50 Cent appeared as guests. Sunshowah is working with Spitkicker in development of a show showcasing the talent and personality of artists from Sptkickers legendary roster.Sunshowah continues to work on projects that bring to the forefront nuances of everyday struggles often glossed over by the film industry.They are in the final stages of their upcoming film "eye jammy" which will premier in early 2006

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directed by abeid & hausif for SUNSHOWAH "BROKE"*****FILMS & VIDEOS***** justice executed, rev' o. lu, shun, broke, voices, issues, GUMP, phonejacked in collaboration with The Phage & EYE JAMMY

Movies:

justice executed, rev' o. lu, shun, joe gotta go, broke, voices, EYE JAMMY & phonejacked in collaboration with The Phage

My Blog

Winning Onfumes.com, Video Music Box & Ralph McDaniels

Sunshowah wins the first Onfumes.com short film competition! First and foremost, on behalf of Sunshowah, i'd like to say thank you for your support. A film is pretty useless if its not seen, and i m...
Posted by SUNSHOWAH on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:40:00 PST

Filmmaking and Other Filmmakers

Film is a very hard business to get into and a harder business to stay in. why? its a business where you have to spend a lot of money before you make any. and sunshowah has been spending for years. we...
Posted by SUNSHOWAH on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:41:00 PST

"where My Dogs At" Misogyny , MTV2 , racism! do something

for the link to work you have to replace the 2 periods before "where" in the link with a number sign its a myspace issue u cant put number signs in messages herehttp://www.mtv2.com/..where_my_dogs_at"...
Posted by SUNSHOWAH on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:37:00 PST

EYE JAMMY - the making of a 15 minute film PART 3

so Daoud and i finally watch all the footage and we are very happy with what we have...but we also realize that we're missing a lot. so we started plannig the reshoot. we shot July 7th through 9th, bu...
Posted by SUNSHOWAH on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:10:00 PST

EYE JAMMY - the making of a 15 minute film PART 2

Okay...time to shoot. The plan was simple...we shoot the apartment scenes first, on a friday night. saturday we shoot dolly shots on the stoop saturday morning, the project scenes in the afternoon and...
Posted by SUNSHOWAH on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:09:00 PST

EYE JAMMY - the making of a 15 minute film PART 1

this is going to be lengthy because making a film is a lengthy process. we officially FINISHED our short film, EYE JAMMY, yesterday, and there was such a burden lifted off of our shoulders when i pla...
Posted by SUNSHOWAH on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:07:00 PST