Check it out:
“Ted Hope’s new book “Hope for Film” is part memoir, part manual, part manifesto”
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Category: These Are Those Things
That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about
Care for a little sexploitation anyone?
I am a judge for Viewster’s Online Film Festival. It is so great to give money to filmmakers. $100,000.00!!!! This installment was “It’s Complicated” and it takes a global tour through relationships.
The thing I found most striking was the exposure to filmmakers from around the world. Sitting hear in America, I mostly see local work, and you become accustomed to the dominant strain of fast cut, tight story telling. In contrast, these shorts on Viewster had room to breathe, offering nuance, performance, and audience consideration in a way that American films rarely do.
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Divide And Conquer
HUSKER DU: Divide And Conquer (September, 1985)
Well, they divided up all the land
We’ve got states and cities
Cities have their neighborhoods
And more subdivisions
There’s countries divided by walls
Oceans and latitude
And longitude, longing to find out
Just what they’re missing
There’s lots of area codes
And nine digit zip codes
Secret decoder ring codes
Arteries, shopping nodes
“Noah” directed by Walter Woodman & Patrick Cederberg
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Weather!
Some good advice for filmmakers (as well as recent college grads) comes from Arthur C. Brooks in the NY Times last weekend:
1. Earn everything: people who do not feel responsible for their own successes spend 25 percent more time feeling sad than those who feel they are responsible.
2. Fail & rebound: the average entrepreneur fails almost four times before succeeding.
