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

Places To Films #1: Cuba & Vanishing America


I am tired of watching one Indie masterpiece after another filmed in yet another director’s kitchen.  Although the cost of travel, crews, lights, and pesky things like visas prohibit immediate satisfaction,  a producer can dream can’t he?

Michael Eastman’s photos of Cuba & Vanishing America are both sights to behold.  Some are a little bit more reachable than others.

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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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