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

Read These Excerpts And You Will Have A Great Holiday Gift Idea

This past week or so, you had a chance to read some new excerpts from my book. If they don’t convince you to get “Hope For Film” as a gift for yourself or any film fan you know, what will?  Check these out:

NoFilmSchool ran “History Lesson: New York In The ’80’s. Indie Film. Lots Of Drugs“. Learn how I learned not to ask for permission, how to remain calm in a sea of chaos, and take my lessons wherever I could get them.

EatDrinkFilms ran this tale of how I learned to appreciate both sake and beer with my sushi — as I learned that the art of the samurai is not having to pull one’s sword.

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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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