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

All Mistakes Are Made In Preparation

I am giving a Masterclass today at the Palm Springs International Shortfest. It’s a chance for everyone to get a double dose of Double Hope as my wife’s latest short film CHINA CONNECTION: JERRY is also premiering at 5P in the “Secret Lives Of Others” program.  I hope to see you at both!
 
My lecture is “The Artist As Entrepreneur: My Secret Formula For Success In The Era Of Digital Transformation” but I find that if I really want this to resonate, I either need more time to talk or people should arrive having already accepted some truths.  What truths? These truths:
If you are planning to come to my talk, consider it the prep. However, if you can’t read it before, it will work just as well to read after.  And as this is an update on the talk I gave in Amsterdam a little over a week ago, I am told it inspires pretty well on it’s own, so if time is in short supply, just show up and decide for yourself if you want to dive in a bit deeper!

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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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