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

Alphabutt!

Twisted kids’ music by Kimya Dawson comes out today.  The parents will know her from doing songs for that movie Juno.  But you can still love her for songs with lyrics like: 

A is for Apple, B is for Butt, C is for Cat-butt, D is for Doo-Doo, E is for Elephant-butt, F is for Fart, G is for Gorilla-fart, H is for Hairy Gorilla-fart”
You can hear samples and have your parents order it here.

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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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