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

Staying Wacky Forever


You know those drawings you do that the grownups say “that’s so silly!” about? What is it that they are saying then? Do they want you to keep on doing those drawings forever — or do they want you to stop drawing those creatures right then and now? Did you ever notice how kids’ drawings are soooo much fun, but when the drawers get older they forget about monsters and monkeys and start drawing bowls of fruit? It happens. The why is one of those many unanswerable questions.

Dave Pressler never caught that dread fruit bowl disease. He not only draws really great and silly monsters, but he makes sculptures and all kinds of stuff. Check out his website. It’s a BOWL of fun.

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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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