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

Real Live Monsters!


Well, okay, a real dead one.  This is a 96 tentacled octopus.  Each of it’s tentacles branches out 8 times.  It’s as if each of your fingers had five fingers on them.  Or something like that.  Make a note, you can visit this one the next time you are in Shima, Japan at the Shima Marineland Aquarium.

But this one lives!  This two headed Bearded Dragon Lizard just celebrated it’s first birthday.  Say Happy Happy to “Zak n’ Wheezie”.

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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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