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

All The Great Old Cinemas In America (and more)

What a great resource  Cinema Treasures is!  It’s got a listing of 1000s of cinemas.

And if you want Art Houses, PBS’ Independent Lens made this nifty map. Now you can find out where you want your film to play anywhere in the ‘ol USA. Hat tip again to MovieCityNews for leading the way with these pieces.

Finding the right place to play your film has never been very easy. That sort of specified knowledge has been one of the many reasons traditional distributors have hung around as long as they have. That’s all starting to change though. The Workbook Project has been doing a theater mapping project for years now. You’ve gotta love their map.

Of course if you want to start booking your own theaters, it’s not so easy.  There are some nice new developments out there though.

Check out Good Screenings in the UK, and Open Indie here.

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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.

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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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