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

Tribeca’s new Camera-to-Classroom Fund

Tribeca Film Institute just announced Camera-to Classroom Fund, an initiative supported by JP Morgan Chase. The Camera-to-Classroom fund will give away fifteen $2,500 awards to non-profit organizations in New York City who wish to create or meaningfully improve a partnership with an NYC public school using the Department of Education’s new Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts: The Moving Image as their guide.

Proposals are due on February 1st. Please see www.tribecafilminstitute.org/youth for details and guidelines.


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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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