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

Happy New Year! (Two Can Have A Party!)

Per the YouTube description: “Tammi Terrells’ happy 1966 original recording of ‘Two can have a party’. Overdubbed in 1967 with Marvin Gayes’ voice to create a duet. Sadly, Tammi died in 1970 being only 24 years of age.
The fantastic Whitey’s lindy hoppers dance from the 1941 film ‘Hellzapoppin’ ”

(courtesy of Alex R.)

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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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