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

Celebrate (Banned Book Week) With The Pope Of Filth (John Waters)

It’s Banned Book Week.  What better way to celebrate than with the Pope Of Filth himself?

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Big hat tip to Open Culture who has been delivering great discoveries on a daily basis for some time now.

There’s more from this great series produced at The City’s own City Lights Bookstore.
Joshua Mohr reads from Anthony Burgess’ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

Kim Addonizio reads from Alan Ginsberg’s HOWL.

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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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Now you can learn hands on with Ted at the new entertainment program at ASU Thunderbird.

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