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

The History Of Our World Is Now A Machine

This machine looks like it will set the world record for the least efficient machine. The Rube Goldberg challenge is to accomplish a simple task (here, watering a plant) in under two minutes with at least 20 steps. This machine does it in 244 steps! Complexity is cool!

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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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