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

My Various Alternate Lives

Did you know in addition to making Indie Films I sell State Farm Insurance?

I didn’t.  But he does look a bit like me, doesn’t he?
Sometimes I train sheep dogs too (but only in disguise):
The first time I went on Google I admit I googled myself.  The odd thing was I found a “Ted Hope” who was doing exactly what I was going to do before I went to film school: building sustainable agricultural communities and small scale economies in developing lands.  Maybe he will take me on as an apprentice…  or the sheep herder will.  Just don’t make me sell insurance please.  Although I have to say any job looks good these days.

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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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