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

We Are Standing In The Dinosaur’s Footprint

The problems and the solutions are both hidden in plain sight.  We don’t know where we are even when the map is right in front of us.  What is this? This is water.  And we have always known how to swim.

 

THIS IS WATER from nathan m peracciny on Vimeo.

You were born with a map tattooed on your skin.  You hear the noise so often you forgot that they were singing.  What you thought was blue is actually pink.  They are only curses because we called them curses because we needed curses.  Get a little perspective and try to look at it completely differently.

(Hat tip BrainPickings.org)

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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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