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

… that I love & that I am inspired by

These are crazy times.  There is so much out there, so much that is available to us.  Yet somehow it seems harder to find.  Maybe there really is too much and we need some kind of filter.  Or maybe its that its really hard to be heard above the din.  So much money and effort is spent trying to make us care about things that we shouldn’t.  We need the amateurs to speak up, those that do it out of love and true passion.  

These Are Those Things is dedicated to the things that brighten our day: the good work, the original work, the work that strives and does not settle.  The work that is not afraid to fail and not afraid to reach, to move into uncharted terrain.  These are those things that make me want to keep working, to keep creating, to keep sharing.  
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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

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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