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

The Biggest Lego Set Yet!

This is Model 10179, Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon. It weighs more than 20 pounds and consists of 5195 pieces. It took the builder and his son about 30 hours. The completed model is about 33″ long, 22″ wide and 8″ tall. This video shows each step of assembly from the instruction manual.  


All I can is “wow”.  I was very impressed when my son built the new Ferrari set for his Granddad this past Father’s Day…

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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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