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

Film Lovers Jackpot

More classic cinema is available for free legally online than ever before. You can watch more film from any decade, than you could if you were living in the decade that they were made in. I just stumbled across another treasure trove, and now I now I need to start that age-enhancement process asap as I don’t have the time available in my lifetime to watch all the great stuff that is out there, accessible by a simple keystroke.

Europa Film Treasures is a joint venture of 30 different film archives and has all sorts of things available.

There’s everything from Buster Keaton, George Melies,to a nice collection of turn of the century erotica.

Personally speaking, I would love a list of directors and stars to pick from, but hey, I am not that picky.

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…

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

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