The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

New York Is A Zoo


The City is a playground.  Art is all around.  Good ideas abound.  Huckleberry is a hound.  

Thanks to street artist Joshua Allen Harris for these wonderful creations. Clink on the link to watch the video and see them come alive — sorry about the commercial, but it can’t be helped… (And thanks Melissa G. for the tip!)

Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris

Every Aspiring Filmmakers new best friend.

Meet Ted

Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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