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Truly Free Film

What Issues Do Filmmakers Need To Track?

If filmmakers don't track core issues, they will find their form abandoned in the parking lotA creative life is a precarious thing.  Actions occur that could profoundly effect your ability to earn a living doing what you love.  We get blindsided again and again, sometimes not recognizing things until they are too late to alter them.  It’s one of the reasons I have tried to meticulously track for you what are the good thing and bad things happening in indie film these days.  Yet, it seems to me we all need to do a better job of tracking them if we don’t want to get trapped in a future we won’t be part of..

My thought is that we should be able to define a series of issues in which we can put events, ideas, and articles into as they occur, helping each other stay on top of them. 

The first step is to define the issues.  That is what I am doing today .

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Truly Free Film

The Producer’s Role, The Process, The Need For A Reboot, Funds, and The Future

I recently did a long and comprehensive interview with Scott Myers at GoIntoTheStory.  We hit a lot of big points.  I think you will dig it.

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Truly Free Film

Further Thoughts On The Producer’s Role

By Ted Hope

I believe strongly, that the producing credits should represent the people who have been there from the earliest stages through the entire life of the film, contributing in a major capacity on all issues.

When I first started in the business, I felt like I was there to make sure the director fully considered all of their options and recognized what came with their choices, the repercussions of those choices, helping the director get outside of their mind so they could focus on what was happening before the camera. I’d make sure that everything else that was needed would happen in the best possible way.

Along the way, it soon became clear that I also needed to

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Issues and Actions

PGA’s Producer Code Of Credits

The PGA announced that they are close to getting the Studios to adopt their Producers Code Of Credits as the determining factor in who gets credited as producer on a project.

If you haven’t read these requirements, you must — whether you are a producer, filmmaker, financier, or crew person. Hell, you should if you are an audience member too.