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

Harvey Pekar: The Jazz Opera


Wow!  Harvey live on the internet in a jazz opera!  Joyce too!  Check out the website here.  It’s going to stream live on January 31st, at 8P EST.  Don’t miss it.  And what a great title: LEAVE ME ALONE!

Harvey is one of our top national resources.  He has been an inspiration for me for over twenty five years.  If you haven’t watched American Splendor multiple times, there’s something wrong with you.  He would have a top spot if there was a These Are Those Heroes list.
Someday I will write the post that he deserves, but meanwhile just mark your calenders.

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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.

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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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