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

I Worshipped John Lennon

When I was fourteen, when I was twelve, when I was seven, John was the one.  But I never met him.  When Jerry Levitan was fourteen he snuck into John’s hotel room with a tape recorder. 

I love the idea of animated documentaries.  I recently saw Waltz With Bashir and it’s my film of the year for the moment.  It won’t come out until fall (and is completely something else than this) so you will have to content yourself with this remarkable work for the time being. Josh Rashkin’s  I MET THE WALRUS was nominated for Academy Award in 2007.

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Meet Ted

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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