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

Hard Times: The Same Song Sung All Over

We do what we do and we like what we do.  It’s our love for cinema and all that it can be that has lead us here.  Preservation efforts sometime require transformation too though.  The debates we’ve been having about the necessity of adopting new methods and forms are echoed in other media forms.  It’s hard for everyone.

Virginia Heffernan’s “Content and Its Discontents” for the NY Times Magazine has beautifully captured the quandary that print media finds itself in, but applies equally well to what are going through in indie film land.  Give it a read.

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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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