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

Why Filmmakers Must Use Social Media, aka Zodiac MF Loves Collaborator

People once hid in their office.  If you knew them from hanging out at the bar you had a unique relationship.  Still it was damn hard to make connections, no matter where you were on the totem pole.  But now those totem poles have been burned down to the ground.  The old ways are over and 1000 phoenixes rise from the ashes daily.

The fact is we’ve learned how to speak to each other.  We may not always speak the same language but we speak.  And that’s fucking awesome.

My case is point is how Zodiac Motherfucker shares his love for Collaborator  with writer/director Martin Donovan on Twitter:

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Twitter: @Zodiac_MF
Twitter: @DonovanWord

COLLABORATOR opens theatrically in LA at The Egyptian today.

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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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