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

Jordan Crane

I have often dreamed of having a house full of disasters.  Not real ones mind you, but drawings and paintings and the such, and all of them of situations going horribly wrong.  C’mon, everyone enjoys watching a house burn, don’t they?

Dean Haspiel turned me on to Jordan’s THE LAST LONELY SATURDAY and if it doesn’t break your heart, then you must already be dead.  That lead me to Jordan’s website and now I have a couple prints and dream of having more.  But lately I have been dreaming of having a house where everything just goes perfectly right, so I am not sure if they will go with the changing decor.  But his work is beautiful and worth the trip.  Red ink like blood.

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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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