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

Save Trees? Pay People NOT To Cut Them Down

This seems like a simple and very good idea — even the United Nations is behind it: want to keep some trees on the planet?  Pay the people who own them, NOT to cut them down.  People pay for them to do the opposite, yet the entire world benefits, particularly the developed nations, i.e. big carbon producers.

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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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