The film business is often said to be dominated by white men. It is. But instead of complain let’s do something about it.
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Tag: employment
Unfortunately if I sought to get compensated for the work I do, my movies would not get made. If I sought to get paid like normal people are, I never would have been able to produce any of my films.
I have been fortunate enough to have made about sixty films in about twenty years. I am not foolish enough to think I was the deciding factor in bringing good ideas into cinematic being, but I do know that certain practices of mine, have helped significantly. Yes, it is also true that good work begets other good work, and a track record certainly helps — particularly a track record of profitability — but generally all of my films depend on two things to get made: 1) superior quality of the material, and 2) the willingness of the collaborators to make great sacrifices.
There’s more though on why these films have happened; there have been commonalities amongst all the films that have helped significantly in their getting made. I have to repeatedly go out on the limb, believing in the film and the filmmaker for years on end, with no remuneration, pushing to make the project better, figuring out how in the hell to bring more “value” to it, shopping it, strategizing and the like.
I spoke to the This is that interns awhile back on what opportunities I saw in the current landscape for employment in the indie sphere. We shot it so we could share it with you. I indebted to This is that former intern Chris Stetson for putting this together. Give this man a job!
We’ll have more clips from this discussion in the upcoming days and weeks.
Some Job Opportunities in Indie Film with Ted Hope (part 1) from Hope for Film on Vimeo.
