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

Leave It To Banksy

Cannes has been too expensive for me to attend the last couple of years.  And it is really elitist, isn’t it? 

Leave it to Banksy to solve all those problems.  Welcome to The Cans Festival. Well, London is still pricey, but… YouTube is still free (tip from Bryan B.)
The Banksy book “Wall And Piece” has been a popular one in our house.  My son spotted some wild-posting for a recent show of Banksy’s on the day it opened and not only got us there ahead of the swarm but proceeded to pontificate to all attendees on the quality and political ramifications of his various pranks.  Not bad for someone barely over 4 feet tall.  Banksy’s done more to keep politics and resistance fun and accessible than anyone since The Clash.

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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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