[4] His fellow students at the time included Jay Alders once again, filmmaker Tom Malloy, radio personality Christine Nagy, actress/filmmaker Susie Adriensen[5] and actor Kevin Carolan.
[1] During an internship at Batfilm Productions, headed by executive producers Michael Uslan (a family friend) and Benjamin Melniker, Jude met future Friday's Child frontman Tom Walker.
Jude began to work his way up as an assistant director on the films Safe Men, Taxman, Some Fish Can Fly and A Day in Black and White.
The company was specifically formed for the development of the feature film, Ride With the Dragons, based on Jude's personal experiences in high school, focusing mainly on a friend's suicide and his step-brothers subsequent death in a car accident.
Jude directed the group's first short, A Taste of Better Days, which starred his wife Melanie Canter and was featured in the Freedom Film Festival in Philadelphia in February, 2004, and produced their third project, The Collector's Item.
The overwhelming response from fans made it clear that the future of the band was to turn to broadband media in order to spread their music and attract new listeners.
The team that produced the concert video (Walker, Jude, Haddad and Maio) teamed up with entertainment lawyer Rob McNeely[9] to form Digital Cafe Tour (DCT), a production company that creates live concert video footage of independent musicians of all genres, as well as rising comedians, made specifically for new media (web, handheld media players, cell phones, etc.
[16][17] He produced and co-directed the pilot for the television series Erroneous Convictions,[18] created by Bruce Birns and Michael Russell, and starring Tom Bartos, Kim Director and Judge Jerry Sheindlin.