Probably my favorite of all the music video’s I’ve ever directed. This is one badass song, sung by one badass little bro. Enjoy and spread the word!

Who is Baby CHUCK?
Bandcamp – whosbabychuck.bandcamp.com
Facebook – facebook.com/pages/Baby-Chuck/295804217132264

Director — Eddie O’KEEFE
Producer and Bass Drum Constructor — Matt MANDARINO
Cinematographer — Lane TEICHLER
Costume/Make-Up — Kaitlin JONGEBLOED
Associate Producer — Terry JUN

Hey kids,

I’m honored to announce that The GHOSTS is now a part of Future Short’s YouTube channel of the web’s best shorts. If you haven’t watched in a while – or haven’t watched at all — it isn’t too late!

Hey bad boiz and gurlz,

In case you aren’t hip to the 411, just a friendly reminder that The GHOSTS is playing at the Chicago International Film Festival multiple times next week. I’d like to extend an invitation to all you Internet dwellers and gremlins; I’d love to see you there. The screening dates/times are below:

Monday, Oct. 10 -- 6:30pm

Friday, Oct. 14 -- 5:00pm*

Sunday, Oct. 16 - 11:45pm*

You can buy tickets here.

In addition to all that brutal excitement — thanks to Dope Records we will be having an official after-party following the Oct. 14th screening @ Exit Bar (which is best known as that dive on North Avenue where you might get your ass kicked if you happened upon it at the wrong time of night). The after-party will feature live performances by The ORWELLS, The COMANCHES and The GHOULS. Come join us in a drunken celebration of leather, Lucky Strikes and out of tune Squires.

Details for that shindig can be found at the Facebook event page here.

Keep kool,

Eddie O’KEEFE

*I will be doing a Q & A after the 14th and 16th screenings along with the other directors whose shorts are featured in the same block as The GHOSTS.

So I woke up to one crazy email this morning.

Guess who’s one of Vimeo’s “Extraordinary Users?” Yes, me. Somehow. According to Vimeo’s Staff Blog I am “responsible for some amazing short films and music videos, all with a unique “rustic” style.”

This is actually a tremendous honor. The staff at Vimeo usually writes about how to keep your lenses clean and how to establish POV in a narrative short and things of that ilk. Their blog posts are usually like a mini-film school. They’re incredible. So for them to take a week where they could have written about important things, like the optimal way to store your DSLR (mild temp, dark, cushioned case), and to instead write about me is too cool for school.

Thanks Vimeo!

Eddie

Check out the music video I directed for “No Escape,” the debut single by Los Angeles make-out music masters, the Chances. Their next show is July 26th at The Satellite — 8:30pm — $8 at the door or $5 if you RSVP at littlerecordcompany.com/

The Chances are…

Julia BARNA
Michael RUNION &
Sara SINCLAIR

MySpace – myspace.com/​thechancesmusic
Twitter – twitter.com/​thechances

I was getting rather sick of my old website with all the cutesy handwritten nonsense and the moleskin notebook motif. Although Maria TZEKA, my life-long graphic designer and friend, did a wonderful job with that site it was beginning to feel stale. It felt like me three years ago — like I just saw The Royal Tenenbaums and decided to ape it’s aesthetic for my lackluster/content-light undergrad portfolio. And screw that kid.

Long story short, Maria and I updated it. Without further adieu I bring you eddieokeefe.com 2.0. Check it out, baby childs! Photo courtesy of my buddy, Michael RUNION.

Check out the new music video for The ORWELLS’ hit song, “Under The Flowers.” I directed this sepia toned weird, old American teenage freak out while I was home in CHICAGO last week. In case you didn’t already know, Baby CHUCK (guitarist) is my lil bro. As you can hear, I’ve taught him well.

theorwellsmusic.bandcamp.com/​album/​oh-well

Eddie O’KEEFE

Hey babies,

So we’re putting The GHOSTS back online because these festivals are totally ultra bogus and who needs ‘em. You guys gave us our initial success and we appreciate that immensely.

So without further adeui.

Oh, and, check out a podcast interview I did about about The Ghosts over at Director’s Notes.

Eddie O’KEEFE

Dear friends, fans, enemies and Internet trolls,

It gives me great pleasure to announce my new film “Shangri-La Suite.” A movie about sex, drugs, and killing Elvis.

It’s easily the strongest screenplay I’ve ever co-written and it will undoubtably be the best film in The TEENAGE Head canon. Which brings me to another exciting tidbit — this isn’t really a Teenage Head film.

Shangri-La Suite is my thesis project at the American Film Institute. And since I’ve now bowed down to the man there are some consequences to the way we have to raise money for this thing. The biggest difference between the pre-production and fundraising process for Shangri-La Suite compared to The GHOSTS is that we aren’t allowed to use Kickstarter (some tax reason nonsense). And as a result, if you’d like to donate money — and yes, we need money (lots and lots of it actually), we ask that you do so through the secure “Donate” feature located on the official site for the film, here.

We couldn’t have made The GHOSTS happen without the generous contributions of those who believed in the project. I hope that you’ll consider again donating to my new film. Any pledge will help, big or small. I shutter to give the exact number we’re looking to raise because it’s, uh, rather ridiculous. Let’s just say it’s about five times that of The GHOSTS’ budget. And if you really feel like Googling, you can find that number somewhere.

I know there are plenty of other places your 5 or 100 or 1,000 dollars could and probably should go. Hey, I mean look, cancer still doesn’t have a cure — I totally get it. But if you like pretty girls and guns and lovers on the run and Elvis Presley and Rock ‘n’ Roll and blood and sex; If you know that feeling of chasing after an elusive dream which is always just out of reach than maybe, just maybe Shangri-La Suite is something you’d be interested in supporting.

Right now there aren’t incentives to donate the way that there are on Kickstarter. However, we hope to add this feature in the near future. And as a bonus, once we get around to implementing that, your donation will be retroactively included in on those rewards. For right now all I can promise is that your money will be well spent on locations/costumes/clearance rights/talent/equipment/etc. I can also promise that by donating you will become a fundamental part of what will be a great movie.

You can keep tabs on Shangri-La Suite by checking in on this here blog, visiting the official site or by “Liking” us on Facebook. Of course we hope you do all three.

Thanks for reading and thanks for giving a shit about what I do. I can’t believe how many people watched The GHOSTS on Vimeo. I can’t believe how many people read this blog every day and care about our projects. It’s incredible. We couldn’t do it without you.

Best,

Eddie O’KEEFE

Watch me awkwardly fumble through this interview. Speech classes in elementary school apparently did very little for me.