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

Web Resources

This was supposed to be a blog about film and building the new infrastructure for what truly could be called independent film.

Sometimes I feel that the web side of it all is completely taking over.  It’s a given that gaining a rudimentary understanding of what is possible using the existing internet tools will be key to building that new infrastructure.  To that end, all of our job descriptions should include a specific amount of time per week (per day?) devoted to that education.
To that end we will be providing a new column on the right specifically for “web resources” — those sites that aggregate all that is happening in the field and are worth a filmmaker’s regular visit.  Stay tuned, for that, and hit us with your suggestions.
To that end, check out ReadWriteWeb which tracks technology, social media, and social network trends, and has a lot of great How-To posts too.

Every Aspiring Filmmakers new best friend.

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…

Join the conversation

Classes starting soon

Now you can learn hands on with Ted at the new entertainment program at ASU Thunderbird.

Featured Guest Post

Orly Ravid “Stop Waiting for Godot & Distribute Your Movie Now Dang Darn It!”