Tag: IFP

Hope For Film Speaking Tour

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date September 2, 2014
113 Comments on Hope For Film Speaking Tour

I have a lot to share with you. I also have a lot of hope for film — and I am not just talking about copies of my book for you to pick up. Anyway, you can hear it all directly from me as I will be on the road a lot over these next few months. Hopefully I will be coming to your town. If you happen to teach at a college, and I am coming through already, let me know, and maybe I can make an additional stop. If I am not passing through, and you’d like me to, let me know. Here’s a sampling of where I will be headed as well as the dates:

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You Now Access Better Actors Than Ever Before For Your Movies

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date October 21, 2013

Tags actors, casting, Christine Vachon, IFP

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First Feature Preparation? Exactly.

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date October 11, 2013
1 Comment on First Feature Preparation? Exactly.

Tags 1st features, directing, IFP, producing

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STOP Believing “Build It And They Will Come”

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date September 19, 2013
138 Comments on STOP Believing “Build It And They Will Come”

The Field Of Dreams Is Filled With Plenty Of Corn

Jon Kilick and I have a fair amount in common — but we also seem to see the state of the world, or at least our film culture and industry, in a very different way.

We both also recognize — and encourage others to recognize — some really important things about the film world, namely that this is a great time to be a creator. We have

Tags Ben Zeitlin, Good.is, grand abundance, IFP, Indepedent Film Week, Jon Kilick, Ryan Coogler

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How to Make Money in the Age of Abundance, Part 1

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date July 30, 2013
63 Comments on How to Make Money in the Age of Abundance, Part 1

Part One: The Stuggles You Are Facing and How You Can Cope

By Jon Reiss

Since the collapse of the traditional distribution for filmmakers in 2007 we as a community have been struggling to figure out new solutions of how to monetize our work – in other words: how to make money from our content and create a sustainable living. In this two part series I will reformulate and address some of the problems we are facing – but also present some potential solutions for independent filmmakers. These thoughts come from a creating a series of new presentations on Artistic Entrepreneurship over the past year that I presented at the recent SFFS A2E Workshop (http://www.sffs.org/Filmmaker360/A2E-Artist-to-Entrepreneur.aspx) and this spring’s IFP Filmmaker Labs (http://www.ifp.org/programs/labs/). I welcome your comments!

While there were a number of factors that caused an upheaval of the distribution landscape in 2007 and while there have been many positive signs of improvement, filmmakers and all artists still face an enormously changed market for content.

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It Was Inevitable I Would Take A Hiatus From Producing Projects

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date April 19, 2013
1 Comment on It Was Inevitable I Would Take A Hiatus From Producing Projects

I was forwarded this clip of me yesterday; I am quite confident is from before I was offered the job to become the Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. In it, I am clearly frustrated with the state of the film industry, where I felt I (and my contemporaries) were being rewarded for quantity over quality. No wonder I accepted the job when it was offered; I had already